snake pit
snake pit • n. a pit containing poisonous snakes. ∎ fig. a scene of vicious behavior or ruthless competition: the literary snake pits of New York. ∎ fig. a place of overcrowded squalor, esp. a poorly run mental hospital: the clinic opened in 1949, when most drug and alcohol sanitariums were still snake pits.
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