Meaning of bear garden | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A public place where bears are kept for diversion or fighting.
   historical
2. Any place where riotous conduct is common or permitted.
   archaic

Examples

“[…] Indeed, the education of your youth is every way preposterous; you waste at school years in improving talents, without having ever spent an hour in discovering them; one promiscuous line of instruction is followed, without regard to genius, capacity, or probable situation in the commonwealth. From this bear-garden of the pedagogue, a raw, unprincipled boy is turned loose upon the world to travel; […]”

“1867-1868, Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy He sees the rich, the aristocratic class, in occupation of the executive government, and so if he is of us, stopped from making Hyde Park a bear-garden or the streets.”

“"Top of the Alps is becomin' a perfect bear-garden," said he.”

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