Mystery

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Is an anthology on PBS (out of the same stable as Masterpiece Theatre) which brings all kinds of British detective shows and mysteries to the US, although there are some American specials.

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a mystery to (one)

Something that is difficult to understand. Why she walked out in such a huff this morning is a mystery to me! She was acting normally before that.It was a mystery to scientists where the birds migrated to until they banded some of them and tracked their movement.

a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma

That which is so dense and secretive as to be totally indecipherable or impossible to foretell. It is from a line used by Winston Churchill to describe the intentions and interests of Russia in 1939: 'I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.' Many versions, variations, and appropriations of the quote, its structure, and its meaning have since been in use. Political campaigns make my head hurt. They're just a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

be another of life's great mysteries

To be difficult to understand or decipher. This phrase is often humorously applied to unimportant things. The living cannot truly understand death—it's another of life's great mysteries.Why dogs and cats hate each other is another of life's great mysteries.

mystery meat

Some unappealing and unidentifiable meat or meat-like substance served as or incorporated into a meal. A: 'Any guess what the mystery meat is they're serving in the cafeteria?' B: 'If I had to guess, I'd say beef, but that is some gnarly looking beef if I'm right.'In the military, you learn to choke down whatever mystery meat they give you without question. It's the only food you're going to get, so you may as well eat it.

mystery meat

n. any unidentified meat. (Collegiate.) There are no hints as to what this mystery meat is—except its strange pinkish color.

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Freebase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:.MysteryMystery fiction is a loosely-defined term.It is often used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction—in other words a novel or short story in which a detective investigates and solves a crime mystery. Sometimes mystery books are nonfiction. The term 'mystery fiction' may sometimes be limited to the subset of detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle/suspense element and its logical solution, as a contrast to hardboiled detective stories, which focus on action and gritty realism.Although normally associated with the crime genre, the term 'mystery fiction' may in certain situations refer to a completely different genre, where the focus is on supernatural or thriller mystery. This usage was common in the pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s, where titles such as Dime Mystery, Thrilling Mystery and Spicy Mystery offered what at the time were described as 'weird menace' stories—supernatural horror in the vein of Grand Guignol. This contrasted with parallel titles of the same names which contained conventional hardboiled crime fiction. The first use of 'mystery' in this sense was by Dime Mystery, which started out as an ordinary crime fiction magazine but switched to 'weird menace' during the latter part of 1933.

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Examples of mystery in a Sentence.:And so it's a bit of a mystery( what's going on with Alex Karev), so that we don't watch Jo in the same place that we watched her in last season. We did it as carefully as we could. But it takes a while to get there.:Let a man strive to purify his thoughts.

What a man thinketh, that is he this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness.:When JFK said that Hitler ‘had in him the stuff of which legends are made,’ he was speaking to the mystery surrounding him, not the evil he demonstrated to the world, nowhere in this diary, or in any of his writings, is there any indication of sympathy for Nazi crimes or cause.:I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.:The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.