Cheshire cat

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Chesh′ire cat′

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

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Noun

Cheshire cat - a fictional cat with a broad fixed smile on its face; created by Lewis Carroll

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Cheshire cat

[ˈtʃeʃəˈkæt] N to grin like a Cheshire cat → sonreír de oreja a oreja

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Cheshire cat

n to grin like a Cheshire cat → breit grinsen

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`It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, `and that's why.

`If it had grown up,' she said to herself, `it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.' And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, `if one only knew the right way to change them--' when she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off.

`I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know that cats COULD grin.'

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(like the smile of the Cheshire cat) and attached cuffs; and that was all.

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"After the supernova itself has faded, the light-echo nebula will remain visible like the Cheshire Cat's smile,' Schaefer writes.

Echoing supernova

Sterling Holloway, Kaa the snake, also provided the voices of Winnie The Pooh and the Cheshire Cat in Alice In Wonderland.

It happened oday

The thing that annoyed me was our beloved PM Gordon Brown standing grinning like a Cheshire cat.

Letter: Mailbag: - .Brown's shame

where does the phrase grinning like a Cheshire cat come from?

YES I'm back; YOUR SHOUT

Story lines: Lewis Carroll is said to have found inspiration for the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland in a carving to be found in St Peter's Church at Croft on Tees.

View of the North; Voice of the North

Millionaire Rebus author Rankin was beaming like a Cheshire cat after the charity auction.

It's cool for Cats

"She had a grin like a Cheshire cat all over her face and didn't seem to care who saw her.

24/7: TIFF'S LOVE SOLID AS A ROCK

Last Sunday, the 55-year-old was seen grinning like a Cheshire cat while having a glass of champagne with France Galop president Jean-Luc Lagardere at the sales.