English Dictionary

lose the plot

動詞

イギリス英語 慣用表現

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lose, plot. / (UK, idiomatic) To cease to behave in a consistent and/or rational manner.

日本語の意味

理性や一貫性を欠き、正常な判断や行動ができなくなること。 / 混乱状態に陥り、状況や目的を見失うこと。

While reorganizing the allotment, I realized we could lose the plot and then we'd have no idea which beds belong where.

区画（菜園）を整理しているうちに、どの区画がどこにあるか見失ってしまうかもしれないと気づいた。そうなると、どこに何を植えるべきかわからなくなる。

意味（1）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lose, plot.

Readers enter the storyworlds of novels and then follow the logic of the events that occur in them primarily by attempting to reconstruct the fictional minds of the characters in that storyworld. Otherwise, readers lose the plot.

意味（2）

(UK, idiomatic) To cease to behave in a consistent and/or rational manner.

Right then I lost the plot. I did, man, I went over the edge.

意味（3）

(UK, idiomatic) To lose sight of an important objective or principle; to act contrarily to one's own interests through concentrating on relatively unimportant matters.

But while there remains a considerable degree of consensus that the consequence of apparently losing the plot sometime between 1914 and 1918 was the cultural and economic malaise of the 1920s and 1930s, there are still some who look back on the interwar years less with criticism than with nostalgia.

loses the plot （ present singular third-person ）

losing the plot （ participle present ）

lost the plot （ participle past ）

lost the plot （ past ）