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chasing the rabbit down the hole 

Something that is very common to observe Mensa (high IQ) members doing when discussing a topic. They'll start off on one topic, but will usually veer off topic several times in rapid succession and end up talking about something totally different than when they started. This can happen within first few minutes of the discussion.
Damn! John is chasing the rabbit down the hole again!

down the word hole 

An expression describing an irresistibly compelling addiction to creating and submitting words and phrases to Urban Dictionary.
Sometimes I am so deeply down the word hole so late into the night that I can barely keep my eyes open anymore.

"Go Down the Rabbit Hole" 

An allusion to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. To go "down the rabbit hole" is to enter a period of chaos or confusion. Can also be said when taking a hallucinogenic, as some suspect Carroll's novel was really about a drug trip.
School's starting up again, time to "Go Down the Rabbit Hole" once more.
"Go Down the Rabbit Hole" by ginanp16 September 28, 2008

Down the Rabbit Hole 

A reference to the journey of Alice, in Alice in Wonderland. To start as seemingly simply search (rabbit hole) and finding the unexpected a chaotic world. To start a research project, only to find, the subject was not what it appeared to be. The research exposing: unexpected twist and turns, deceptions, lies, thefts, treasures hidden from the rightful owners, crimes, goodness, truth, digging deeper in hidden passages and finding more.

A painting of the rabbit from, Alice in Wonderland, on the wall of the lunchroom in area51.
Looking into a wife's finances and finding, not only was she making her sisters car payments,but insurance payments also. What a Down the Rabbit Hole that was.

Go Down the Rabbit Hole 

To follow a thread or a lead that branches off from your initial objective, then (often) doing that repeatedly to get your self lost and/or completely off topic. This is based on the fact that Rabbit Holes (or "warrens") are often interconnected dens and tunnels with no apparent pattern to them, but in which one would surely get lost if followed impulsively. (See also: lost in a maze, or trapped in a labyrinth.) (This predates Lewis Carrol, whose meandering fantasies are very much like a random stream-of-consciousness exercise.)
I started researching Electric Cars, but started to Go Down the Rabbit Hole, following stories about Nikola Tesla, which eventually lead me to a list of David Bowie's movie roles.
Go Down the Rabbit Hole by Daibhre January 29, 2015

Down the rabbit hole 

To get extremely and obsessively involved in something to the exclusion of normal friends and family.
"I haven't seen Josh since he started playing that Ingress"
"Yep, down the rabbit hole."