What is Rat-hole?
1.
To digress in an extensive way. To divert the conversation to a topic that is not only unrelated to the topic at hand, but a topic that will likely have no immediate resolution either.
That's an interesting discussion, but let's stay on track and not go down a rat-hole.
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2.
A dirty, dingy room, or apartment.
Why don't you clean this rat-hole up?
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For use when you want to send someone (usually dumb or lower in the chain of command) away from a room so that you can discuss private m..