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The Cheshire Cat (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ ʃ ər,-ɪər / CHESH-ər, -eer) [1] is a fictional cat popularised by Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and known for its distinctive mischievous grin. While now most often used in Alice-related contexts, the association of a "Cheshire cat" with grinning predates the 1865 book. It has ...
"Mary, Mary" is a song written by Michael Nesmith and first recorded by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band for their 1966 album East-West. Nesmith's band, the Monkees, later recorded it for More of the Monkees (1967). Hip hop group Run–D.M.C. revived the song in the late 1980s, with an adaptation that appeared in the U.S. record charts.
Both West and Alice are shocked when, after the flying monkeys lift her up into the air, Wendy flies into the air and rescues Alice. Wendy and Alice land in the poppy field which puts Wendy to sleep, but Alice resists due to a high laudanum tolerance. Alice flees to Wonderland through a nearby pond, where she is greeted by the Cheshire Cat.
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.
Ernest Borgnine (/ ˈ b ɔːr ɡ n aɪ n / BORG-nyne; born Ermes Effron Borgnino; January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012) was an American actor whose career spanned over six decades.He was noted for his gruff but relaxed voice and gap-toothed Cheshire Cat grin. [2]
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.
The song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” is a holiday classic, but its genesis goes back to Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis.It turns out, she helped this melancholy Christmas ...
Cheshire Cat (Thursday Next series), a fictional cat in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next novels; Cheshire Cat (comics), a fictional character; Cheshire Cat idiom or opaque pointer, a computer programming technique; Cheshire Cat Eating House, a cafe in the Widows' Almshouses, Nantwich, Cheshire, England; Quantum Cheshire cat, a phenomenon in ...