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looking glass

noun

  1. a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.
  2. the glass used in a mirror.
  3. anything used as a mirror, as highly polished metal or a reflecting surface.


looking glass

noun

  1. a mirror, esp a ladies' dressing mirror
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. with normal or familiar circumstances reversed; topsy-turvy

    a looking-glass world

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of looking glass1

First recorded in 1520–30
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of looking glass1

sense 2 in allusion to Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass
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But much as I admired the playwright’s ingenious examination of identity politics through the looking glass of farce, I never quite succumbed to the comedy’s demented logic.

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In 2012, Lauren Rivera, a professor at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, coined the term "looking glass merit" to describe the unconscious tendency that humans have to define merit in a way that is self-validating.

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It wasn’t that long ago that the country and the world slipped through the looking glass.

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“Hopefully there may be AI regulation someday, but we are already through the looking glass. I do think it’s already too late.â€

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So on Monday, this Democrat decided to step through the looking glass and attend my first Republican caucus.

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