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Cheshire cat

noun

  1. a constantly grinning cat in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Cheshire cat

  1. 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.
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Notes

“Smiling like a Cheshire cat” refers to anyone with a conspicuous and long-lasting smile.
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. grin like a Cheshire cat, to smile or grin inscrutably.

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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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