rabbit hole
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nounDefinition of RABBIT HOLE
: a bizarre or difficult state or situation —usually used in the phrase down the rabbit hole
Examples of RABBIT HOLE
- <shoreline residents are finding themselves helplessly falling down a rabbit hole in their Sisyphean efforts to halt beach erosion>
Origin of RABBIT HOLE
from the rabbit hole that Alice enters in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
First Known Use: 1980
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Rhymes with RABBIT HOLE
aureole, banderole, bannerol, barcarole, barrel roll, buttonhole, cabriole, camisole, capriole, caracole, carmagnole, coffee roll, croquignole, cubbyhole, decontrol, Demerol, Dover sole, escarole, exit poll, farandole, finger hole, fumarole, girandole, girasole, Grand Guignol, honor roll, innersole, in the hole, Jackson Hole, jelly roll, kaiser roll, lemon sole, meadow vole, methanol, micromole, millimole, monopole, muster roll, on a roll, on the whole, oriole, ostiole, oversoul, ozone hole, petiole, pick-and-roll, pigeonhole, protocol, rigmarole, rock and roll, Seminole, totem pole, tracheole, vacuole, water hole
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