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mousehole - definition and meaning
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noun hole through which a mouse enters a roomnoun oil industry, drilling The storage area on a drilling rig where the next joint of drilling pipe is held until needed.
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mouse + hole .
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Not just because I do know the inverse square law (the difference between perigee and apogee, between catalepsy and cataplexy, distal and proxal, etc, etc, etc) and they maybe dont ... but because I can only consider anyone who "looks down on" anyone, regardless of what they do or dont know as a veritable "mousehole ".
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
The center house (left here) was extended to the south to meet the northern house, creating a "mousehole " entrance to the gangway.
Ecology of Absence 2009
And now I will go read the new Robin Hobb, which I am supposed to be reviewing, and go back to ignoring my manuscript like a cat ignoring a mousehole .
life was easy when it was boring matociquala 2010
Last dot: I am (almost) sure “our” poor hack would have offered a kingdom for a mousehole …
Five-typo feast of fail 2009
Most of the mob, like a cat at a mousehole , had grown weary of waiting for their victim to appear.
CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010
I'm back to the lurking by the mousehole stage of storytelling, where I wait for the book to tell me how it ends.
It's like Goldilocks became a serial killer. matociquala 2008
Go right, get hammer from red box, clippers left of box, screwdriver from mousehole , not Bank-ID on note.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
They abandoned it long ago to follow Der Fuehrer Obama into the mousehole of history.
Hillary Tells Bill O'Reilly That Wright's Statements Were "Offensive And Outrageous" 2009
So it is daft, wrong, self-defeating and also defensive to respond to everyone who doesnt know the inverse square law AS THOUGH they were an arrogant mousehole who is secretly sneering at you because you havent seen Hamlet.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
I imagined no one knew of my mousehole , hidden as it was where two giant cabinets met at an angle, and reachable only by a dusty person of diminutive size, but I now think it was a luxury granted me by the compassion of a man toward an orphan with an appetite for knowledge.
Kitai Young Geoffrion 2007
bilby commented on the word mousehole
A village in Cornwall, England.
January 2, 2008