Falsely set up in advance; staged; too convenient to be authentic or coincidental.
köken: Literally, “arranged with the movie guy”; les vues is an old-fashioned term for movies. The image is of a situation arranged as a director arranges a movie scene.
köken: From luto + -ng- + Makaw, literally “Macanese cuisine”. The slang sense refers to Macau Chinese chefs in the 1930s pre-arranging their ingredients in advance, even before a dish was ordered.