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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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]
Photograph of the 16th century, sandstone caving of a grinning Cheshire Cat on the west wall of St Wilfrid's church tower, Grappenhall, Cheshire. Said to have been Lewis Carroll's (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's) inspiration for the Cheshi: 17:21, 20 November 2009: 293 × 140 (65 KB) Clockworkplum
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.
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Lewis Carroll popularised the Cheshire Cat, but the idea has a much earlier origin. A 16th-century carving of a grinning cat at ...