the plot thickens
humoroussaid when a situation suddenly becomes more complicated or mysterious:
"Now there are two men calling her up all the time." "The plot thickens!"
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Complexity
- a paper chase idiom
- advanced
- all-singing
- be more to sth than meets the eye idiom
- bleeding-edge
- equation
- fancy
- finicky
- high-tech
- intractable
- intricacy
- intricate
- plot
- purple
- serpentine
- sophisticated
- tangled
- thereby
- thereby hangs a tale idiom
- wheel
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