Set
Set verb - To cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop.
Work in
Work in verb - To put among or between others.
Both terms in one sentence
- The "understood set of rules" is usually the rules of reality, but it can just as easily be some set of rules established within the work in question.
Source: Cool Of Rule -
Blackadder the Third is set during the regency, but manages to work in a Dick Turpin type highwayman.
Source: The Cavalier Years - Sellers sprained his ankle just as they started filming and could not work in the cramped B-52 set.
Source: The Other Marty / Film
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