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rabbit hole

[ rab-it hohl ]

noun

  1. a tunnel made in the ground by a rabbit; a rabbit burrow.
  2. Informal. a strange, disorienting, or frustrating situation or experience, typically one that is difficult to navigate: I have been down the rabbit hole of building a new home.

    I had a history of depression and occasionally fell down dark, deep rabbit holes from which only medication and therapy could pull me out.

    I have been down the rabbit hole of building a new home.

  3. Informal. a time-consuming distraction of one's attention as happens when clicking through online links, following social media posts, or pursuing information:

    After diving down an internet rabbit hole and poring over treatments, risks, and so on, she felt even more panicked.



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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of rabbit hole1

First recorded in 1660–70; rabbit hole def 2 was first recorded in 1935–40, from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Example Sentences

It’s so ingrained in the public psyche — everyone is always talking about “I’m going down the rabbit hole” or “red pill, blue pill.”

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But when he was recovering from surgery he went down the series rabbit hole of 192 episodes.

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"I fall into rabbit holes on YouTube. A lot of them. New music writing software, things about health, tech things."

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"That bubble we're in, it can be a little too far down the rabbit hole. Be grateful for the good and the bad, just deal with it."

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“Where we’re getting our news from, and what rabbit holes we’re down, completely seem to inform and infect our belief system,” Strauss says.

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