rabbit hole

collocation in English

meaningsofrabbitandhole

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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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(Definition ofrabbitandholefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Rather than honing and polishing a good musical idea, he wanted to follow the dreaming muse of his genius down everyrabbithole.
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Who will be liable for the rambler, wearing the wrong sort of footwear, who twists his ankle in arabbithole?
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Therefore, in terms of the difficult decisions that face us, we have norabbitholeto 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 arabbithole.
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It would be a good idea to put him down that particularrabbithole.
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What happens if a person catches his foot in arabbithole, 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 arabbithole.
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The use of a steel trap in arabbitholeis 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 nearestrabbithole.
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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 arabbithole.
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What safeguard would there be for some unfortunate farmworker who innocently gassed a badger down arabbithole, after being asked by his employer to gas rabbits?
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It requires a larger hole than the normalrabbithole, 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 arabbithole, 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 therabbithole.
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She follows it to arabbitholeand falls in.
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The lions chase her into a hollow tree, then into a cave and down arabbithole.
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As she steps through th e door, a figurativerabbithole, she is transported to the gateway between worlds.
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Therabbitholeturns out to be a teleport to an alien planet.
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