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with an obvious or silly smileMain entry: Cheshire cat
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like a Cheshire Cat — like a/the/Cheshire Cat phrase with an obvious or silly smile Thesaurus: words used to describe smileshyponym to smilesynonym Main entry … Useful english dictionary
(the) Cheshire Cat — the Cheshire Cat [the Cheshire Cat] a character in Lewis Carroll s novel ↑Alice in Wonderland. It is a cat that disappears, leaving only its smile behind. If a person is described as smiling like a Cheshire cat, it means that they have a broad,… … Useful english dictionary
grin like a Cheshire cat — verb To smile broadly, especially in a self satisfied way. John ended the set with a beautiful serve, an ace, and could not help grinning like a Cheshire cat … Wiktionary
(a) grin like a Cheshire cat — a very wide smile. I just presumed he d got the job because he walked in here with a grin like a Cheshire cat … New idioms dictionary
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
smiling like a Cheshire cat — Meaning A broad smile. Origin Like the smile of the cat in Lewis Carroll s Alice s Adventures in Wonderland. The origin of the phrase is earlier than Carroll. It has associations with the English county of Cheshire although there is no clear… … Meaning and origin of phrases
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
Cheshire cat — UK [ˌtʃeʃə(r) ˈkæt] / US [ˌtʃeʃər ˈkæt] like a/the Cheshire Cat with an obvious or silly smile Etymology: From the Cheshire Cat, a cat that is always smiling in the novel Alice s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll … English dictionary
