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lose the plotTo cease to be behaving in a predictable and/or rational manner.Rate it:

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lose the plotTo have one's results decline severely in quality or suddenly fall below an acceptable standard, especially when compared to past excellence.Rate it:

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the plot thickensUsed, often ironically, to describe an increasingly complex or mysterious situation.Rate it:

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diegesisA narrative or plot. Typically, a movie.Rate it:

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on a cloudy day i saw a rainbow, on the day i saw you , you gave a stormOn better days there's a plot of getting ahead than on a bad day.Rate it:

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the thick plottensThe plot thickens.Rate it:

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fall offA hip hop term; to completely lose the plot in terms of artistic direction.Rate it:

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argumentumthe plot of the piece.Rate it:

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cast aboutTo plan; plot; contrive.Rate it:

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hoist by one's own petardTo be hurt, or destroyed by one's own plot or device, of one's own doing which one intended for another; to be "blown up by one's own bomb".Rate it:

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novas res moliri (Verr. 2. 125)to plot a revolution.Rate it:

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