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a complicated or difficult situation, especially one that is difficult to get out of:
She once went down that political rabbit hole.
Their advice is not meant to send you down a rabbit hole, and involve you in chaos and disorder.
Let's avoid that particular rabbit hole and consider a broader and more unsettling point.
a situation in which you become so interested in a subject or an activity that you cannot stop trying to find out about it or doing it: 无法脱身|深陷…...之中无法自拔
I know when I read a WWI novel I inevitably end up down a rabbit hole researching the war.我知道我一读一战的小说就无可避免地深陷于对这场战争的研究之中无法自拔。
You can kind of find yourself getting sucked into various attention rabbit holes.你有可能会发现自己受到各种关注，无法脱身。

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