gikan sa Mandaluyong

== Cebuano == === Etymology === From gikan (“from”) + sa (“the; marker for location”) + Mandaluyong (“a city in Metro Manila, Philippines”). === Phrase === gikan sa Mandaluyong (idiomatic, slang, dated) crazy; insane; exhibiting wildly erratic, irrational, or disruptive public behavior reminiscent of a psychiatric patient. ==== Usage notes ==== This phrase is a mid-20th-century sociolinguistic artifact referencing the national psychiatric facility established in Barrio Mauway, Mandaluyong in 1928 (historically known as the Mandaluyong Mental Hospital, now the National Center for Mental Health). Through the post-WWII influx of Manila-based radio dramas, movies, and comic books (*komiks*), the geographic name became a nationwide euphemism for mental illness. Visayan speakers adopted the proper noun into their own colloquial slang as a colorful, mocking indicator of madness. This idiom is highly historical and is largely unrecognized by younger generations of Cebuano speakers, who favor traditional baselines like buang (crazy) or structural idioms like luag og turnilyo (having a loose screw). Unlike generic terms for insanity, invoking Mandaluyong specifically emphasizes the threat of institutionalization and metropolitan stigma. It was typically deployed as a sharp, colloquial warning to someone causing a public scene, highlighting the deep cultural dread of losing face and being labeled mad by the local neighborhood. === See also === buang (crazy; insane) maoy (to act out irrationally; to throw a drunken/emotional tantrum)