Phrase info

The zoo

Meaning

The zoo refers to a public place where animals are kept, cared for, and shown to visitors. It can also mean a place or situation that feels wildly busy, loud, or chaotic.

Examples

I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo. Nicole Kidman

We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional. Germaine Greer

The zoo animal in a cage exhibits all these abnormalities that we know so well from our human companions. Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. Desmond Morris

I like to do chill things on dates. I think it would be fun to go to the zoo. I know it's really weird and random, but I love animals. It'd be like a day of doing silly things, while enjoying nature. Ashlee Simpson

There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there. A. A. Milne

If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay. Bob Dole

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