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grin like a Cheshire cat
Idioms and Phrases
Smile broadly, especially in a self-satisfied way. For example, John ended the set with a beautiful serve, an ace, and couldn't help grinning like a Cheshire cat . The ultimate origin of this expression, appearing in print since the late 1700s, is disputed, but its most famous exponent was Lewis Carroll, in whose Alice's Adventures in Wonderland the grinning cat gradually vanished from view, with its grin the last part to vanish.Example Sentences
When the conversation is flowing effortlessly about a niche show you both like, you can鈥檛 help but grin like a Cheshire cat.
You鈥檝e got a tough persona, like a side of beef, and you鈥檙e aroused and stimulated, with an ear-to-ear grin, like a Cheshire cat, and you鈥檙e rethinking your entire formless life, your entire being is filled with a whiff of this heady ambrosia.
The English-born air ace greeted him with a grin like a Cheshire cat.
"You grin like a Cheshire cat," she remarked.
That some of this cheerfulness may be simply animal is true, and that a man may be a dullard and yet sit and "grin like a Cheshire cat;" but we are not speaking of grinning.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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