Ich glaube, das Problem liegt in der Wendung through the looking glass. Da man durch eine Lupe schaut, aber nicht durch einen Spiegel, haben all die, die Lewis Carroll nicht gelesen haben, den unverständlichen Ausdruck passend umgedeutet.
Plausible These! So ganz selten scheint eine solchermaßen falsche Verwendung nicht zu sein.
z.B:
"White computer keyboard under a looking glass, and the G key is replaced by a gilded dollar sign" - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/overstock-com-...
"Beautiful Farm Scene Under A Looking Glass" - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Beautiful-Farm-Sce... oder "Bluebirds w/ Autumn Leaves Domed Looking Glass Shank Button" - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bluebirds-w-Autumn...
"Anne Burdick: (...) Like those before him, it is his attention to detail – which is manifest in the twitchy, idiosyncratic interface – that makes one want to spend hours examining the work as if it were a bug (insect or virus) under a looking glass." - http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/co...
- Im Sydney Morning Herald:
"Because what starts out akin to watching ants being burnt one by one under a looking glass in a sordid social experiment can become addictive before you know it." - https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/i-wasnt-suppos...
- Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City:
"The ABCs of Histology | First you get the tissue | Then you put it in stinky stuff | Then you wax it | slice it and dice it | stain it blue, stain it pink | get ‘em under a looking glass | figure out what it is" - https://www.childrensmercy.org/Content/upload...
" 'And she knows she's under a looking glass,' he said." - http://www.nydailynews.com/lohan-allegedly-sw..... bzw. https://www.inquisitr.com/595863/lohan-hides-...
"We had them under a looking glass, watching them and thinking they were our little projects. We had all this fancy equipment and education and they were just like zoo creatures we were watching." - https://www.houstonpress.com/news/documentary...
"School food has been under a looking glass for some time, but it can be challenging for schools to know where to start addressing nutritional and environmental concerns." - https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/bey...
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