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a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape
- shoreline residents are finding themselves helplessly falling down a rabbit hole in their Sisyphean efforts to halt beach erosion
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“Rabbit hole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rabbit%20hole. Accessed 29 Oct. 2020.
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The first known use of rabbit hole was in 1938
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