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the plot thickens

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the plot thickens

something has become more complicated or interesting The plot thickens as police investigate dozens of deaths at a California hospital.

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The plot thickens.

  (humorous)

something that you say when something happens which makes a strange situation even more difficult to understand I had assumed the Irishman who keeps phoning June was her husband, but it seems her husband is American. The plot thickens.

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