| 单词 | down a rabbit hole |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdown a (also the) rabbit hole 2. figurative. Used to indicate passage into a strange, surreal, or nonsensical situation or environment. Chiefly in down a (also the) rabbit hole.With allusion to ‘L. Carroll’ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), which describes how the protagonist, Alice, enters a land of magic and strange logic by falling down a rabbit hole. ΚΠ 1938 Yale Law Jrnl. 48 32 It is the Rabbit-Hole down which we fell into the Law, and to him who has gone down it, no queer performance is strange. 1975 Newsweek 28 Apr. 79/2 We slid down a rabbit hole into a Boston underworld where small-time hoods were already hard at work. 1988 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 13 July Did I just fall down a rabbit hole, is the irrational in the ascendancy? 1997 Times (Nexis) 20 June Down the rabbit hole again, and into the surreal world of City politics. 2004 New Yorker 12 Apr. 30/1 A journey down a telecom rabbit hole, where one encountered complicated regulatory rulings..and puzzling invocations of..statutes. < as lemmas |
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