- Cheshire cat, grin like a
- Grin or smile broadly, with great satisfaction
A concise dictionary of English slang (2nd edition) . Brian Phythian. 2015.
Cheshire cat, grin like a
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Cheshire Cat — This article is about a character in Alice s Adventures in Wonderland. For other uses, see Cheshire Cat (disambiguation). Cheshire Cat Alice character The Cheshire cat as … Wikipedia
Cheshire cat — [[t]tʃe̱ʃə(r) kæ̱t[/t]] PHRASE If someone is grinning like a Cheshire cat or like the Cheshire cat, they are smiling very widely. He had a grin on his face like a Cheshire Cat. ...a Cheshire Cat smile … English dictionary
grin like a cheshire cat — If someone has a very wide smile, they have a grin like a Cheshire cat … The small dictionary of idiomes
Cheshire Cat — Die Cheshire Cat in Carrolls Alice im Wunderland, 1866 Die Cheshire [ˈtʃɛʃə] Cat (Cheshire Katze, in deutschen Übersetzungen Grinsekatze oder Grinse Katze) ist eine Figur aus dem Roman Alice im Wunderland (Alice s Adventures in Wonderland) von… … Deutsch Wikipedia
cheshire cat, you old — No one has satisfactorily explained why Cheshire cats are supposed to grin. The saying ‘to grin like a Cheshire cat’ already existed when Lewis Carroll had his heroine, in Alice in Wonderland, ask the Duchess why her cat was grinning, only to… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
grin like a Cheshire cat — a grin like a Cheshire cat a very wide smile. What have you got to look so happy about, walking round here grinning like a Cheshire cat? (usually in continuous tenses) … New idioms dictionary
grin like a Cheshire cat — If someone has a very wide smile, they have a grin like a Cheshire cat. (Dorking School Dictionary) … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
Grin like a Cheshire cat — If someone has a very wide smile, they have a grin like a Cheshire cat … Dictionary of English idioms
Cheshire cat — 1. a constantly grinning cat in Lewis Carroll s Alice s Adventures in Wonderland. 2. grin like a Cheshire cat, to smile or grin inscrutably. * * * … Universalium
Cheshire cat — /tʃɛʃɪə ˈkæt/ (say cheshear kat) phrase grin (or smile) like a Cheshire cat, Colloquial to be extremely self satisfied. {phrase popularised by Lewis Carroll in Alice s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) in which the cat disappeared leaving only its… …
