rubber room | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,psychiatry)Acelllined with cushions used forconfinementof a mentallydisturbedperson.Synonyms:padded room,padded cell2002December 6, Robert L. Jamieson Jr, “Dec. 7, 1941: From boy to man in one hellish day”, inSeattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved7 August 2014:"If you kept on worrying about being killed you could end up in arubber room."2003February 7,Peter Bradshaw, “Punch-Drunk Love”, inThe Guardian, UK, retrieved7 August 2014:Barry is... well, what? Borderline autistic and obsessive-compulsive, with serious anger management issues and a dangerous behavioural disorder that in the real world would get him a one-way ticket to therubber room.2013Jan. 25, Comment by egginmybeer, "The gun lobby’s long reach,"Boston Globe(retrieved 7 Aug 2014):How is it that the Virginia Tech shooter Seung Cho and Adam Lanza weren't in arubber roominstead of in a classroom shooting people?; (idiomatic,education)Especially in New York City, atemporaryworkplaceassigned to a teacher who is not permitted to teach in a classroom because he or she is underdisciplinaryreview.Synonym:reassignment center2010September 23,Stephen Holden, “Movie Review: Waiting for 'Superman' (2010)”, inNew York Times, retrieved7 August 2014:The film briefly visits a “rubber room” in New York City where idle teachers accused of misconduct wait months and sometimes years for hearings while drawing full salaries.2013April 25, Corinne Lestch, “Report substantiates misuse of school property accusations against 'rubber roomed' teacher”, inNew York Daily News, retrieved7 August 2014:The findings dropped the day before the one-year anniversary of his idling away in therubber room, where teachers await disciplinary hearings.

Examples:

EN: What I should have done was call up the local hatch... reserved a rubber room for him.
ES: Lo que debería haber hecho era llamar al manicomio. Y reservarle una habitación acolchada. ¿Cariño?
EN: I know enough to keep you in a rubber room for life.
ES: Sé lo suficiente como para meterte en un manicomio.
EN: One maybe i can repeat to the president without worrying about him sticking me in a rubber room. What happened to gaines?
ES: De acuerdo, espero una nueva alternativa, ...una que pueda aceptar sin estremecerme.
EN: Five more minutes of this, and they can put me in a rubber room.
ES: Cinco minutos más acá y me pueden poner en un loquero.
EN: "If Kojak thinks he's running a factory, he belongs in a rubber room."
ES: Cito textualmente: "Si Kojak cree que lleva una empresa, está para que lo encierren".
EN: - He belongs in a rubber room.
ES: Debería vivir en un cuarto acolchado.
EN: She belongs in a rubber room.
ES: Está de atar.
EN: She came this close to entering a rubber room, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna let you put her there now.
ES: Estuvo así de cerca de acabar en un cuarto acolchado y no permitiré que Ud. la meta ahí ahora.
EN: Spent the last year of his life in a rubber room.
ES: Pasado el año pasado en una habitación acolchada.
EN: Give me a rubber room, I'd have it cracked by midnight.
ES: Dadme una habitación acolchada y haré que se derrumbe para medianoche.
EN: You're the guy who rescued me from the rubber room, brought me back to L.A.
ES: Ya que lo mencionas... 10 años y mucha agua bajo los puentes. Rita te abandona, Peter me deja a mi.
EN: So now, I'm in shit city with the board and he's in a rubber room totally paranoid.
ES: Ahora estoy en problemas. Y él en una celda acolchada, completamente paranoico.
EN: No, "we" gotta get the cops and put you in a rubber room.
ES: No, "tenemos" que llamar a la poli y ponerte una camisa de fuerza.
EN: He belongs in a rubber room.
ES: Debería estar internado.
EN: -You anticipated cutting your way out of a rubber room?
ES: - ¿Anticipaste salir de una sala de goma?

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