(the) twilight zone

(the) twilight zone
Etymology
From the television programme The Twilight Zone , in which mysterious events affected people in strange ways.
a place that is mysterious, or a situation that cannot easily be explained
Thesaurus: mysteries, riddles and unknown things or peoplesynonym

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The Twilight Zone [The Twilight Zone]
a US television series (1959–65) which each week had a different strange story with a surprising ending. There was also a film (1983), and another television series, The New Twilight Zone (1985–89). The phrase ‘in the twilight zone’ is still used in American English to describe something mysterious.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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