A small blue megaphone with an open mouth at its rim stands beside a coiled metal spring.

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Willy Wonka

Next time, try to open your mouth a little wider when you speak.

— Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory • 1971

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker offers a pointed piece of advice about speaking: next time, open the mouth wider. The wording implies the listener was hard to understand, and the phrasing is brisk and corrective, though the words alone could be read as teasing or curt.

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