monkey-house

• monkey house

monkey-house (plural monkey-houses)

1. An enclosure in which monkeys are kept.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "The fellow is as full of tricks as the monkey-house at the Zoo."

2. A frenetically chaotic place, often said of a place where politicians gather.
3. (US, dated) A brothel.