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Used in reference to two people, one of whom is regarded as much more attractive than the other.
‘writers have dubbed the couple, cruelly, as the beauty and the beast’
as modifier‘sceptics made much of the age gap and potential intellectual differences, while the author himself bristled at ‘beauty and the beast’ references in the press’