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looking glass

noun

looking glass

with normal or familiar circumstances reversed; topsy-turvy
a looking-glass world

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First recorded in 1520–30

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sense 2 in allusion to Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass

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The season is around a quarter over, and there’s already a sense that Washington is through the looking glass.

Perhaps their temporary visit to our side of the looking glass will help them empathize with what it is like to be autistic.

Bose first built this tech, which it calls OpenAudio, into a product called Frames that turn ordinary looking glasses into headphones.

The through-the-looking-glass trope used in Purple Rose of Cairo and a couple of other Allen films again.

Just before you pass through the Looking Glass, you are looking at your own reflection.

The Looking Glass effect is routine for many travelers returning from a distant place.

The Looking Glass exists for everyone who travels back from violent places of the earth.

This is a perfect window into the through-the-looking-glass world of blasphemy-ban advocates.

"Go on talking," returned Eveline, who was standing before the looking-glass washing the paint off her face.

A candle stood in an empty soda-water bottle on each side of the looking-glass, and there was no other light.

I'm off of the Pennsy myself, and I'm ashamed to look in the looking-glass since I came out here.

It would be more like your fate to fall down cellar and break the looking-glass and set yourself on fire.

I'd love to try my fate walking down cellar backwards with a looking-glass in one hand and a candle in the other.

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