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"Down the rabbit hole" is an English-language idiom or trope which refers to getting deep into something, or ending up somewhere strange. Lewis Carroll introduced the phrase as the title for chapter one of his 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , after which the term slowly entered the English vernacular.
"Goodbye. Please dig my grave very deep. All right; hurry up." [5] — Tom Ketchum, American outlaw and cowboy (26 April 1901), executed by hanging for attempted train robbery "I have swallowed corrosive sublimate." [3]
For example, when you invest in the index fund the S&P 500, a stock market index that tracks the stock performance of 500 of the largest public companies, your money is spread out, pooling to fuel ...
dig An informal term for an archaeological excavation. disturbance Any change to an archaeological site due to events which occurred after the site was laid down. dry sieving A method of sifting artefacts from excavated sediments by shaking it through sieves or meshes of varying sizes. As opposed to wet sieving, which uses water. [11]
Archaeological material tends to accumulate in events. A gardener swept a pile of soil into a corner, laid a gravel path or planted a bush in a hole. A builder built a wall and back-filled the trench. Years later, someone built a pigsty onto it and drained the pigsty into the nettle patch. Later still, the original wall blew over and so on.
A gas main being laid in a trench. A trench is a type of excavation or depression in the ground that is generally deeper than it is wide (as opposed to a swale or a bar ditch), and narrow compared with its length (as opposed to a simple hole or pit).
One kind word can warm three winter months; One man's meat is another man's poison; One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter; One man's trash is another man's treasure; One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb; One might as well throw water into the sea as to do a kindness to rogues; One law for the rich and another for the ...
Killing Ants : when a player digging a hit passes the ball directly into the ground; Killshot : on a serve or a swing when the ball hits the passers neck or chest region, in between digging and getting facialed; Lombardo: A beach volley player who demonstrates a gross lack of skill, knowledge, or style. "That lombardo has been throwing party ...