Tar-Baby
（重定向自Tarbaby）
![Br'er Rabbit and the Tar-Baby, drawing by E.W. Kemble from The Tar-Baby, by Joel Chandler Harris, 1904](/Images/godic/202502/15/Br'er_Rabbit_and_Tar-Baby4734.jpg")
![Br'er Rabbit attacking the Tar-Baby, 1895 illustration](/Images/godic/202502/15/Brer_Rabbit_and_the_Tar_Baby4734.jpg")
The Tar-Baby is a fictional character in the second of the Uncle Remus stories published in 1881; it is a doll made of tar and turpentine used to entrap Br'er Rabbit. The more that Br'er Rabbit fights the Tar-Baby, the more entangled he becomes.
In modern usage, "tar baby" refers to any "sticky situation" that is only aggravated by additional involvement with it.