snake pit - Meaning in Marathi

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snake pit - Meaning in Marathi

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Definitions and Meaning of snake pit in English

snake pit noun

1. pejorative terms for an insane asylum

   Synonyms

   Bedlam, Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium

2. any place of pain and turmoil

   Synonyms

   hell on earth, hell, hell, hellhole, inferno, inferno, the pits

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   Examples

   • "the hell of battle"
   • "the inferno of the engine room"
   • "when you're alone Christmas is the pits"

Description

A snake pit is, in a literal sense, a hole filled with snakes. In idiomatic speech, "snake pits" are places of horror, torture and death in European legends and fairy tales. The Viking warlord Ragnar Lodbrok is said to have been thrown into a snake pit and died there, after his army had been defeated in battle by King Aelle II of Northumbria. An older legend recorded in Atlakviða and Oddrúnargrátr tells that Attila the Hun murdered Gunnarr, the King of Burgundy, in a snake pit. In a medieval German poem, Dietrich von Bern is thrown into a snake pit by the giant Sigenot – he is protected by a magical jewel that had been given to him earlier by a dwarf.

Also see "Snake pit" on Wikipedia

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