Beauty and the Beast

Literally 'open-mouthed'. Used figuratively to describe someone so surprised they stand there with their mouth hanging open. The image is vivid and non-compositional in its figurative use as an insult or criticism.

Borrowed from French and used by characters in this dialogue to signal courtliness or old-world elegance. In Latin American Spanish-language media, French honorifics occasionally appear in dubbed European fairy-tale settings to preserve the source material's flavor.

Refers to something large, unwieldy, and poorly functional, often a machine or object. The word carries dismissive affection or frustration. Cannot be guessed from its component parts.