📚 noun • entry_id 47053
rabbit hole
Meanings (ES + gloss)
agujero conejuno • jardín • madriguera conejil • meterse en honduras
A time-consuming tangent or detour, often one from which it is difficult to extricate oneself.
I'm also a fan of a really obscure book series, but that's a rabbit hole that we won't get into.
Near-synonym: rabbit trail (regiolectic)
boquete de una madriguera conejuna • entrada de una madriguera conejil • madriguera
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rabbit, hole. The entrance to a rabbit warren or burrow; the whole warren or burrow.
As the limber gunners went to the rear, his horse trod in a rabbit-hole and came down, throwing him into a depression of the ground.
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found…
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