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Cheshire cat
noun
- a constantly grinning cat in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Cheshire cat
- A cat with an enormous grin encountered by Alice in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll . The cat tends to disappear, leaving only its smile hanging in the air.
Notes
Idioms and Phrases
- grin like a Cheshire cat, to smile or grin inscrutably.
Example Sentences
Val and I were talking about when our respective sons were toddlers, throwing from a crib a mountain of Beanie Babies while smiling like Cheshire cats.
“That may have been discussed as one of several possibilities,” the prosecutor replied with a Cheshire cat grin.
When the conversation is flowing effortlessly about a niche show you both like, you can’t help but grin like a Cheshire cat.
Arsenal's Mead last featured for England in November 2022 and said she had been "smiling like a Cheshire cat" since arriving to camp at St George's Park.
If a dozen or so Republicans actually wanted to join the Democrats and elect Jeffries as speaker, the Democrats would nod and concede little, while smiling like Cheshire cats.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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