अनुबाद - फिनल्यान्डी-जर्मन - valmis hulluinhuoneeseen vietäväksi

ive actually never heard of this "saying". is "taken away" to be associated with "nuthouse"/"funny farm"?

(it would also be helpful to know the exact original meaning)

CC: Chantal IanMegill2 kafetzou Maribel

Yes - we say "you should be taken away" or "they're going to take you away", and the meaning of "to the insane asylum" is generally understood.

Yup!
My mother used to sing this:

They're coming to take me away
Hee hee hoo hoo ha ha
to the funny farm!

Don't know where it was from, though!

"... where life is beautiful all the time,
and I'll be happy to see those nice young men
in their clean white coats,
and they're coming to take me a away, ha ha!"

haha sounds funny =)
but good to know now! unfortunately it's also proof that my english-german dictionary isn't as good as i always thought it would be...

It's an idiom - dictionaries are notoriously poor at handling those.

... and you dont really learn them at school, although they would be important when talking to a native speaker. you can be grammatically and verbally perfect, but not knowing these common expressions is one if the subtle but noticeable differences to a real native speaker.

Excatly the song I had in mind

But literally from spoken finnish: "ready to be taken to an asylum" where the asylum should be changed to a more familiar equivalent - but very hard for a foreigner to know which word would have the same value of spoken language/humour. The song came to rescue...

Yay! The crazy English experts, to the rescue!
(kafetzou says: "Speak for yourself, Ian!" )

Ha ha, hee, hee, you don't know me, Ian!