RABBIT HOLE

PRONUNCIATION: (RAB-it hohl)

MEANING: noun:
1. A bizarre, confusing, or disorienting situation that’s hard to exit.
2. A lengthy and often unproductive detour, especially one involving a series of tangents (as in online browsing).

ETYMOLOGY: From the rabbit hole into which Alice falls in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The term was first used literally, for an entrance to a rabbit warren in 1667, and metaphorically from 1938.
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RABBI'S HOLE - where to hide from the Inquisition

ROBBIT HOLE - where to lubricate R. Daneel Olivaw

RABBIT ¡HOLA! - "Eh, what's up, Doc?" in Mexico City