ˌThrough the ˈLooking-Glass BrE AmE
(1872) a book for children by Lewis ↑ Carroll in which the main character, Alice, a little girl, visits a strange world by stepping through a mirror. Many of the people she meets are ↑ chess pieces or characters from ↑ nursery rhyme s (=old songs or poems for young children) such as ↑ Humpty Dumpty . ⇨ ↑ Alice in Wonderland , ↑ Tweedledum and Tweedledee