What's the difference between madhouse and nuthouse?

Madhouse


Definition:

  • (n.) A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ian Cruise, an independent councillor in Birmingham who resigned as a prison officer at the West Midlands jail in July, said it was an “absolute madhouse” and should be taken back from G4s control.
  • (2) EDM today has come a long way from the early days of house and techno, when sound was privileged over vision, an ethos enshrined in the title of the 1992 Madhouse compilation A Basement, a Red Light, and a Feeling .
  • (3) Four hours from the Zurich madhouse, Uefa’s base on the shores of Lake Geneva in Nyon hums with calm purpose.
  • (4) Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay, the former Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman who is an adviser to Cable, described the proposal as the "economics of the madhouse".
  • (5) Otherwise your capitalism degrades into a low-trust, low-investment, low-innovation madhouse in which all shareholders think about is the next deal and next chance to exit – and where wage inequalities grow ever higher.
  • (6) But turn the page and there's Dillon's editor, Bill Bradshaw, wailing that "Fabio Capello today has to show he is worth his £6m salary by bringing some sanity to the Rustenberg madhouse."
  • (7) The saga has a history of celebrating tough females, and you’d have to be truly crazy to survive as a lone woman in the saga’s dusty post-apocalyptic madhouse.
  • (8) Particularly in a week like this, to travel from London to Berlin feels like leaving the madhouse and arriving in a world inhabited by rational beings once more.
  • (9) Lots of bodies haven’t been picked up because the separatists are shooting.” “It was a madhouse.
  • (10) In those cities, 0.3334 of them studied Medicine and 0.6444 of them lived there; 0.6 of them worked in hospitals and 0.2222 of them worked in madhouses.
  • (11) He said he had also lost his Kremlin pass and described what was happening in Moscow as 'a madhouse'.
  • (12) 'I'm not staying in this madhouse' Rampling was born in Essex, the daughter of a colonel and a painter.
  • (13) Osborne dubbed Darling's plans "a tax rise on almost all jobs", and "the economics of the madhouse", claiming it was a mistake to increase the tax burden in this way.
  • (14) That would be frankly the economics of the madhouse.
  • (15) But I said, 'No way, Jose, I'm not staying here in this madhouse.'
  • (16) Out on the ramp, where, with the "the madhouse tannoy squawking links and rechts ", the selections are reversed as reunions, the narrative voice commiserates with the protagonist.
  • (17) He also started visiting his local bar, the Luda Kuca (“Madhouse”), a smoke-filled, rough-edged place that appealed to a shifting crowd of impoverished war veterans, Bosnian Serbs and Montenegrins.
  • (18) In addition, as President of the "Junta de Beneficencia de Santiago" he supervised and updated hospital care management and founded several health institutions such as the Madhouse, the Orphan House and the School of Midwifery.
  • (19) Wherever he was, whether sectioned in the madhouse, or home, sprawled on his red-velvet chaise longue, amid a blizzard of books, ash and paper, he was one of life's great learners, a modest student of the world he wrote about with such exhilarating power.
  • (20) That was because of the strange case of John Clare's copyright, whereby a living editor claimed the copyright of a poet who had died in a madhouse a century and a half ago.

Nuthouse


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "That's when I realised I'm in a nuthouse," she said.

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