Cabot Cove syndrome

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The situation where, in order to create storylines for a detective drama, the protagonist encounters far more murders than is plausible. humorous,uncountable
    — If an author cannot figure out some credible way to introduce murder into an amateur sleuth's life, the writer risks creating a detective who suffers from the dreaded Cabot Cove syndrome […]

词源

Named from the fictional setting of the long-running US television series Murder, She Wrote.
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