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Cheshire cat. He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of any one who shows his teeth and gums in laughing. The phrase appears again in print in John Wolcot's pseudonymous Peter Pindar's Pair of Lyric Epistles (1792): "Lo, like a Cheshire cat our court will grin." The phrase also appears in print in William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Newcomes ...
Perhaps the Cheshire Cat is one of the most famous cats in world culture, but for each of us, the most important kitty is the one that lives with us, rubs against our legs, and brazenly demands ...
Grinning like a Cheshire Cat. This phrase owes its origin to the unhappy attempts of a sign painter of that country to represent a lion rampant, which was the crest of an influential family, on the sign-boards of many of the inns. The resemblance of these lions to cats caused them to be generally called by the more ignoble name.
The expression has been explained as an amalgam of the widely used phrase "grinning like a cat that got the [spilt] cream" (which could apply to any part of the country, although Cheshire was the pre-eminent milk, cheese, and cream-producing county for several centuries) with Cheshire's unique privileged political status.
Alix Earle Says Cheshire Cat Halloween Costume Is Gonna Be 'Hard to Beat' — and Has Been 'Very Hard' to Get Off (Exclusive) Skyler Caruso, Michelle Lee October 29, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Alice screams in horror, as the Duchess tries to chop her head off. When she leaves, she meets a Cheshire Cat, who leaves his grin, behind instead. Alice meets a Mad Hatter and a March Hare at a tea party, they ask her “Why is a raven like a writing desk”, she misunderstands to answer, and leaves the tea party.
Using the image of Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat, the film's title evokes a dissonance between the promise of a global socialist revolution (the grin) and its actual nonexistence. [1] The film's original French title is Le fond de l'air est rouge , which means "The essence of the air is red", and has a subtext similar to the English title ...
Actor Tommy Flanagan has the scars of a Glasgow smile from having been attacked outside a bar in Glasgow. [1]A Glasgow smile (also known as a Chelsea grin/smile, or a Glasgow, Smiley, Huyton, A buck 50, or Cheshire grin) is a wound caused by making a cut from the corners of a victim's mouth up to the ears, leaving a scar in the shape of a smile.