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Grand piano in the bushes
carefully pre-planned situation posed as a spontaneous event; the opposite of deus ex machina in sense that the latter is truly spontaneous
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/ɡrænd piˈænoʊ ɪn ðə ˈbʊʃəz/
/ɡrand pɪˈanəʊ ɪn ðɪ bʊʃɪz/
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