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lose the plot

1 lose your ability to understand what is happening; lose touch with reality.

2 become uncontrollably angry; lose it. informal

❶ 2013Daily Telegraph As voters switch off from the David v Goliath contests favoured by the leader, both foes and friends are starting to ask whether Mr Miliband has lost the plot.

❷ 2002Glamour On holiday in Spain I lost the plot because I thought my boyfriend was looking at a girl in the distance. I pushed him into a swimming pool.

the plot thickens the situation becomes more difficult and complex.

☞ This expression comes from The Rehearsal (1671), a burlesque drama by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham: 'now the plot thickens very much upon us'.

词组	plot
释义	plot lose the plot 1 lose your ability to understand what is happening; lose touch with reality. 2 become uncontrollably angry; lose it. informal ❶ 2013Daily Telegraph As voters switch off from the David v Goliath contests favoured by the leader, both foes and friends are starting to ask whether Mr Miliband has lost the plot. ❷ 2002Glamour On holiday in Spain I lost the plot because I thought my boyfriend was looking at a girl in the distance. I pushed him into a swimming pool. the plot thickens the situation becomes more difficult and complex. ☞ This expression comes from The Rehearsal (1671), a burlesque drama by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham: 'now the plot thickens very much upon us'.
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