the lunatics have taken over the asylum

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英文释义

短语
  1. Said of a situation in which those in charge are incapable of handling their responsibilities, and should rather be put under scrutiny themselves.
    — Achievers in San Francisco tend to refer to Bolinas as one of those places where the lunatics have taken over the asylum, and tell you about I.B.M. vice presidents who have dropped out there and are into macrame.

词形变化

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词源

Said to originate in a 1919 remark by Richard A. Rowland about the founding of United Artists. Perhaps an allusion to the short story by Edgar Allan Poe, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, first published 1845.
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