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A scene so chaotic it earned its name from an actual asylum.
means A state of noisy, uncontrolled confusion and disorder, where everyone seems to act at once.
from A worn-down slur of Bethlem, London's medieval hospital for the insane, whose infamous chaos became shorthand for any madhouse.
Real placeBethlem Royal Hospital still operates today.
Paid spectacleVisitors once paid to gawk at patients.
FoundedBegan as a priory in 1247.