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rabbit hole
[ rab-it hohl ]
noun
- a tunnel made in the ground by a rabbit; a rabbit burrow.
- 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.
- 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.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of rabbit hole1
Example Sentences
“I went down the rabbit hole and started looking up all the different cancers.”
"So, once, for instance, you nail the qualifying laps like Max did yesterday," Stella said, "then it gets a little bit difficult to get out of the rabbit hole."
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.”
But when he was recovering from surgery he went down the series rabbit hole of 192 episodes.
"I fall into rabbit holes on YouTube. A lot of them. New music writing software, things about health, tech things."
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