discovery scene
noun
A scene (in a play, etc.) in which a revelation or disclosure takes place, especially one which leads to the denouement.
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in Richard Sheridan (1751–1816), playwright and politician.
- speak (or talk) of the devil
- speak (or talk) out of turn
- speak (or think) ill of
- speak out (or up)
- speak the same language
- speak up
- speak up for
- speak volumes
- speak well (or ill) of
- spear
- spear carrier
- spearfish
- speargrass
- speargun
- spearhead
- spear-like
- spearman
- Spearman's rank correlation
- spearmint
- spear phishing
- spear-thrower
- spearwort
- spec
- speccy
- special