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Definition

Disconcertingly bizarre; surreal; weird; strange; topsy-turvy; beyond the reasonable limits of normality.

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Origins

From through + the + looking-glass. In reference to the novel Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.

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See Also

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How People Actually Use It

Similar to the twilight zone, where nothing is quite what it seems. In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass book, it can mean clocks that work backwards or "... a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."

"Through the looking glass, nothing is what it seems."

Source: Urban Dictionary