Idiom
rubber room
Meaning
A cell lined with cushions used for confinement of a mentally disturbed person.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The old horror movie featured a scene in a rubber room.”
“The patient was moved to a rubber room for his own safety after he became violent.”
“In the darkest corners of the asylum, the padded walls of the rubber room muffled the desperate cries of those locked inside.”
Examples
simple
“The old horror movie featured a scene in a rubber room.”
contextual
“The patient was moved to a rubber room for his own safety after he became violent.”
complex
“In the darkest corners of the asylum, the padded walls of the rubber room muffled the desperate cries of those locked inside.”
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