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rathole file 

This is where documents procrastinate after apathetic organization has rodented (is that a word yet? I mean ferreted and squirreled are verbs, but there are plenty of rodents that succinctly define the behavior) them away to an innocuous corner of of an administrative employee's office.
How did you find the Jonathon estate contract? That wasn't in his folder.

I just dug it out of the rathole file. Looks like the last signature on it is five years old.
rathole file by enkephalin07 August 19, 2023

Pounding Sand Down a Rathole 

An expression used to signify a menial or fruitless task; frequently to be preformed by someone not of sound mind or full capacity.
Giving money directly to a hopeless alcoholic to help him improve his situation is like pounding sand down a rathole.

Wikipedia Rathole 

The act of losing between 45-120 minutes while performing click-throughs from the initial Wikipedia page you were interested in.... often leading you to knowledge that has no relationship what-so-ever to your original search.
Man, I was lost 2 hours and missed a meeting because I went down a Wikipedia Rathole. However, I do now know that Richie Sambora is was born in Woodbridge, NJ.

NOTE: Original search was snow fall amounts in the NE.
Wikipedia Rathole by spaceman2004 October 29, 2009
An expletive used almost exclusively in the Caribbean island of Barbados as a superlative to asshole.It can be either used as a noun or an adjective.
adj He's a rashole???

n. ya rashole
Rashole by Nick Gill May 25, 2007
An asshole who plays a retribution paladin in World of Warcraft 3.0.2 when retribution paladins were gods of pvp. People would call the smug, gloating paladin a rethole as a leetspeak cutdown to avoid the possibility of being reported for verbal harassment.
I got killed by the rethole during 12 seconds of immunity bubble. Totally fair.
rethole by Blueiris January 4, 2009

Rat Hole 

a person who is being extremely annoying. It is a combination of the words rat and asshole. It can be used in anger or towards a friend in a joking matter.
Wow omg I cant believe you stole my cookie, you’re such a rat hole.
Rat Hole by ultimate rat February 26, 2020