Refers to a waistcoat-wearing, pocket-watch-wielding white rabbit, hurrying along and muttering, "Oh dear! I shall be late!" in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (1865), whom Alice follows down a rabbit hole into Wonderland.
Awesome rock band Jefferson Airplane's 1967 song White Rabbit retold the story of Alice's adventures as though they were a psychedelic drug trip. But whether you take it literally or metaphorically, following the white rabbit means following an unlikely clue, an innocuous, unbelievable (but also, frankly a bit ridiculous) sign, to find oneself in the midst of more or less extraordinary, marvelous, amazing circumstances that challenge one's fundamental beliefs, expand one's horizons &/or perception of realities, transform one's perspective, and change one's life.
The phrase has become commonplace in popular culture; e.g. in the 1999 film The Matrix, the resistance fighter folks use the trope of following a white rabbit to lead Neo/Mr Anderson/The One out of the matrix. Oddly enough, though, the phrase hasn't filtered through as a metaphor in non-fantastical contexts to any appreciable degree. Outside of science fiction or fantasy, if a writer refers to the white rabbit, s/he is almost certainly specifically alluding to previous uses, usually to Carroll. (We should change that!)
Awesome rock band Jefferson Airplane's 1967 song White Rabbit retold the story of Alice's adventures as though they were a psychedelic drug trip. But whether you take it literally or metaphorically, following the white rabbit means following an unlikely clue, an innocuous, unbelievable (but also, frankly a bit ridiculous) sign, to find oneself in the midst of more or less extraordinary, marvelous, amazing circumstances that challenge one's fundamental beliefs, expand one's horizons &/or perception of realities, transform one's perspective, and change one's life.
The phrase has become commonplace in popular culture; e.g. in the 1999 film The Matrix, the resistance fighter folks use the trope of following a white rabbit to lead Neo/Mr Anderson/The One out of the matrix. Oddly enough, though, the phrase hasn't filtered through as a metaphor in non-fantastical contexts to any appreciable degree. Outside of science fiction or fantasy, if a writer refers to the white rabbit, s/he is almost certainly specifically alluding to previous uses, usually to Carroll. (We should change that!)
'There's something fishy going on here.'
'Well,' said Q, jerking her head toward the door to the stairwell, through which the tattooed woman was disappearing. 'You'd better follow the white rabbit, then.'
'Well,' said Q, jerking her head toward the door to the stairwell, through which the tattooed woman was disappearing. 'You'd better follow the white rabbit, then.'
by FTWR August 19, 2013
Get the follow the white rabbitmug. A girl who is moderately attractive, but is delusional & under the assumption they are more so. These people tend to be strongly opinionated, yet unable to back it up with any sort of reasonable argument. They have a voracious loyalty to an educational institution that would never accept them as students and are, in all probability ashamed to have them as fans. More often than not they tend to be hill folk. Fathers tend to be physically, emotionally, & sexually abusive to both the boys & girls without discrimination. This is in fact somewhat helpful in preparing the respective sexes for their future lives. The boys for the prison life they will inevitably have & the girls for their marriage which will most likely be to a sibling and/or cousin. The girls have extremely wide hips, but a flat ass, with a muffin top similar to a cupcake with too much yeast. She tends to believe that she understands everyone else's problems & knows what's best for them believing them capable of turning it on & off like a light switch. And yet she never deals with her own parental issues.
by Death 2 Gingers August 26, 2013
Get the Alabama White Trashmug. Bill: "Where's John? He's supposed to be here..."
Sam:" He said he's off in seclusion"
Bill:"Seclusion? He's probably off in a hotel room somewhere riding the white tiger"
Sam:" He said he's off in seclusion"
Bill:"Seclusion? He's probably off in a hotel room somewhere riding the white tiger"
by Larryjerry March 10, 2017
Get the Riding the white tigermug. Popularized by RajiTheOne's song "#WhiteGirlVoice", this term refers to the act of dodging someone's calls, and "hitting them with the white girl voice" aka sending them to voicemail.
Don't criticize RajiTheOne's music man, he doesn't take calls from haters. He'll hit you with the white girl voice.
If they aren't talking about money, I hit 'em with the white girl voice.
If they aren't talking about money, I hit 'em with the white girl voice.
by JamesTownEsq January 29, 2017
Get the White Girl Voicemug. being absolutely in love with white boys, to the point of concern and it being your only type
can also apply to other races
can also apply to other races
by ytgirl April 27, 2023
Get the white boy warriormug. When someone receives a bumpkin in a snow storm, or simply a blumpkin in the snow where there are no available toilets.
I was ridin the slopes when I had to drop a deuce, so my girl and I turned off the run and I shit over a tree while getting dome thus, the Great White Blumpkin was born!
by Motown from Nevada December 9, 2009
Get the Great White Blumpkinmug. When a weight lifting coach on steroids gets mad at the wrong kid so he calls everyone a white pussy faggot instead; supposed to be an insult but is actually a funny joke.
by mr. chigga December 4, 2019
Get the white pussy faggotmug.