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    Default What do these phrases mean?

    1. the mystery deepens
    2. to give someone an air of mystery
    3. a total/complete mystery
    4. to unravel a mystery
    5. a murder mystery

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    Default Re: What do these phrases mean?

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    1. the mystery deepens
    2. to give someone an air of mystery
    3. a total/complete mystery
    4. to unravel a mystery
    5. a murder mystery

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    1. the mystery gets more complicated.

    2. a person acquires a mysterious presence.

    3. a 100% mystery

    4. to solve a mystery

    5. the mystery surrounding a murder, usually a novel [fiction] or a non-fiction about a real life murder.

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    Default 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.

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