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therein lies the rub

phrase

Etymology

A misquotation or paraphrasing from Shakespeare's Hamlet: "ay, there's the rub".

Definitions

  1. That is where the problem is found or located.

    • I tried to back up my database to a USB flash drive, but it isn't big enough. Therein lies the rub.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for therein lies the rub. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA