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John ended the set with a beautiful serve, an ace, and could not help grinning like a Cheshire cat.
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grin like a cheshire cat — If someone has a very wide smile, they have a grin like a Cheshire cat … The small dictionary of idiomes
grin like a Cheshire cat — a grin like a Cheshire cat a very wide smile. What have you got to look so happy about, walking round here grinning like a Cheshire cat? (usually in continuous tenses) … New idioms dictionary
grin like a Cheshire cat — If someone has a very wide smile, they have a grin like a Cheshire cat. (Dorking School Dictionary) … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
Grin like a Cheshire cat — If someone has a very wide smile, they have a grin like a Cheshire cat … Dictionary of English idioms
(a) grin like a Cheshire cat — a very wide smile. I just presumed he d got the job because he walked in here with a grin like a Cheshire cat … New idioms dictionary
grin like a cheshire cat — phrasal Usage: usually capitalized 1st C : to grin broadly … Useful english dictionary
grin like a Cheshire cat — make a wide smile … English contemporary dictionary
Cheshire Cat — Die Cheshire Cat in Carrolls Alice im Wunderland, 1866 Die Cheshire [ˈtʃɛʃə] Cat (Cheshire Katze, in deutschen Übersetzungen Grinsekatze oder Grinse Katze) ist eine Figur aus dem Roman Alice im Wunderland (Alice s Adventures in Wonderland) von… … Deutsch Wikipedia
cheshire cat, you old — No one has satisfactorily explained why Cheshire cats are supposed to grin. The saying ‘to grin like a Cheshire cat’ already existed when Lewis Carroll had his heroine, in Alice in Wonderland, ask the Duchess why her cat was grinning, only to… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
Cheshire cat — 1. a constantly grinning cat in Lewis Carroll s Alice s Adventures in Wonderland. 2. grin like a Cheshire cat, to smile or grin inscrutably. * * * … Universalium
