plot Idiom, Proverb
The plot thickens
Idiom(s): The plot thickensTheme: INTEREST
Things are becoming more complicated or interesting.
• The police assumed that the woman was murdered by her ex-husband, but he has an alibi. The plot thickens.
• John is supposed to be going out with Mary, but I saw him last night with Sally. The plot thickens.
Lose the plot
If someone loses the plot, they have stopped being rational about something.plot thickens, the
plot thickens, theCircumstances are becoming very complex or mysterious. Today this term is often used ironically or half-humorously, as in His companion wasn't his wife or his partner—the plot thickens. Originally (1671) it described the plot of a play that was overly intricate, and by the late 1800s it was used for increasingly complex mysteries in detective stories.
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