plot, secret plan, game - a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal); "they concocted a plot to discredit the governor"; "I saw through his little game from the start"
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counterplot - make a plot in response to another plot
plot - plan secretly, usually something illegal; "They plotted the overthrow of the government"
It may, perhaps, be a question, whether the art which he used to conceal his passion, or the means which honest nature employed to reveal it, betrayed him most: for while art made him more than ever reserved to Sophia, and forbad him to address any of his discourse to her, nay, to avoid meeting her eyes, with the utmost caution; nature was no less busy in counterplotting him.
(17) En relacion a la falta de reconocimiento por parte del canon latinoamericano hacia la literatura lesbica, vease, "Outside the Castle Walls: Beyond Lesbian Counterplotting in Cristina Peri Rossi's Desastres intimos" donde Janis Breckenridge sostiene que se ignora la escritura lesbica negando su existencia.
(27) In this internecine counterplotting we recall that poisoning was also a primary counterstrategy of Glamourous General Idea in its viral inhabitation of media.