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hiromichi
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 Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 4:55 pm Post subject: lift a mystery |
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Does "lift a mystery" mean "solve a mystery"? Why lift?
On Saturday, however, the mystery seemed to have been lifted with the arrest of a cousin of the girl, known as Baby Hope, the police said.
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IanT
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It's bad English.
I think ... that the origin is "the mist (or fog) has lifted", meaning now we can see clearly.
And here I think someone is confusing mist and mystery, and putting it in the passive, and it all comes out a bit strange.
Hope helps,
Ian
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