| 词汇 | the plot thickens |
| 词源 | the plot thickens. “Ay, now the plot thickens,” wrote George Villiers, the second duke of Buckingham, in his farce The Re- hearsal (1671). The phrase has been a humorous English one ever since and has been translated into a number of languages as well. |
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