Meaning of jaw-dropping | Babel Free

Definitions

Causing great awe or surprise.

informal

Equivalents

Examples

“The acrobatic performance in the theater was jaw dropping.”

“Bag of Bones is, hands down, [Stephen] King's most narratively subversive fiction. Whenever you're positive–just positive!–you know⟳ where this ghost story is heading, that's exactly when it gallops off in some jaw-dropping new direction.”

“[Iggy] Pop's was the most jaw-dropping stage⟳ show⟳ anywhere. He made a point⟳ of bloodying himself with broken glass at virtually all of his shows.”

“But they discover⟳ their error in the cab, tell⟳ their driver to turn⟳ around, talk⟳ themselves out of that, tell⟳ their driver to stop⟳, talk⟳ themselves out of that, and finally—displaying a truly jaw-dropping grasp of logic, even for lawyers—decide⟳ the clue means that taking the cab there is okay as long as they then walk⟳ to the mat on their own⟳ two feet.”

“The plots of Mission: Impossible movies tend⟳ to be convoluted but negligible, really only there to provide⟳ connective tissue between jaw-dropping set⟳ pieces.”

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