Re: What do these phrases mean? 1. the mystery deepens. The mystery becomes or is made deeper, gets more complex, more involved, more difficult to understand or solve & etc. 2. to give someone an air of mystery To give someone an air or appearance of secrecy, aura, charisma, magic, charm, inscrutability, mysteriousness or secretiveness. 3. a total/complete mystery A total or complete secret; something that’s unknown or hidden, unexplained or understood; secrecy, obscurity; a story or a play of suspense. 4. to unravel a mystery To solve, disentangle a mystery. 5. a murder mystery A work of fiction, drama, story, play or film dealing with or surrounding murder. |