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the plot's favorite weapon, hiding in plain sight until it knifes your expectations.
means To turn or wind something around itself or another thing, or — figuratively — a sudden, unexpected turn in a story, situation, or path.
from From Old English, related to a family of Germanic words built on the root for "two" (think "twain," "twine"): the original sense was something formed by joining or doubling two strands together. To twist was to twine — to coil threads into one. From that braided beginning the word spun outward to cover anything bent, turned, or wrenched from its straight course, including the plot.
- dance craze
- First dance you could do without touching a partner.
- physics
- Twisting a rod stores energy as torsional stress.
- citrus trick
- Bartenders twist peels to spray fragrant oils onto drinks.
- DNA
- The double helix is two strands twisted together.
- Oliver
- Dickens orphan whose surname became shorthand for surprise.
oliver twist — charles dickens novel (1838) about a london orphan boy
twist ending — m. night shyamalan's the sixth sense (1999) popularized the surprise ending in modern cinema
the twist dance — chubby checker's 1960 hit song that created a global dance craze