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rabbit hole

collocation in English

meanings of rabbitand hole


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rabbit
noun[C or U]
uk /ˈræb.ɪt/ us /ˈræb.ɪt/
a small animal with long ears and large front teeth that moves by jumping on its long back legs, or the meat of this animal eaten ...
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hole
noun[C]
uk /həʊl/ us /hoʊl/
an empty space in an object, usually with an opening to the object's surface, or an opening that goes completely through ...
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Examples of rabbit hole


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Rather than honing and polishing a good musical idea, he wanted to follow the dreaming muse of his genius down every rabbithole.
Who will be liable for the rambler, wearing the wrong sort of footwear, who twists his ankle in a rabbithole?
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Therefore, in terms of the difficult decisions that face us, we have no rabbithole to go down; the problem will remain with us.
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Many prosecutions have failed because the defendants claimed that they were searching for a terrier down a rabbithole.
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It would be a good idea to put him down that particular rabbithole.
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What happens if a person catches his foot in a rabbithole, falls and breaks his leg?
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I expected to hear—and no doubt should have heard—that his finger came out the other end, rather like a ferret out of a rabbithole.
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The use of a steel trap in a rabbithole is a brutal affair.
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Therefore, the result of any mistake they make, whether unwittingly or of malice aforethought, is easily concealed in the nearest rabbithole.
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In the case of a partridge you find practically no nest at all, and in the case of a puffin you find the nest down a rabbithole.
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What safeguard would there be for some unfortunate farmworker who innocently gassed a badger down a rabbithole, after being asked by his employer to gas rabbits?
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It requires a larger hole than the normal rabbithole, and in rocky ground it is often impossible to enlarge the hole sufficiently to take the trap.
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A roller coaster ride down a rabbithole, also stating that its grandiose absinth-soaked delirium never wavers.
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The bands' members describe the video as a magical trip down the rabbithole.
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She follows it to a rabbithole and falls in.
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The lions chase her into a hollow tree, then into a cave and down a rabbithole.
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As she steps through th e door, a figurative rabbithole, she is transported to the gateway between worlds.
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The rabbithole turns out to be a teleport to an alien planet.
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