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Definition of Cheshire cat in English: Cheshire catnountʃɛʃə ˈkattʃeʃərˈkæt A cat depicted with a broad fixed grin, as popularized through Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). 柴郡猫（总咧嘴笑，通过刘易斯·卡洛尔的《艾丽丝漫游奇境记》[1865]为大众所熟知） Example sentencesExamples - And a gentle trip around Christ Church gives Lewis Carroll fans a treat by re-discovering the real world of Alice and the Cheshire cat.
- The ultimate goal of the Socratic method is for the students to ask their own questions while the teacher does nothing at all, disappearing like the Cheshire cat, with a grin and a wave.
- A Cheshire cat grin spread across my face, ‘What, cat got your tongue?’
- She opened her streaming, dead green eyes, grinning so widely that she looked like a Cheshire cat.
- Just thinking about the moment makes her beam like a Cheshire cat.
- With the help of a decrepit Cheshire cat, Alice must battle the undead and the queen's guards in order to save Wonderland from a horrible fate.
- With Cheshire cat smiles, they claim they're only the messengers.
- Everyone winces a bit but Gray just sits there, giddily happy, grinning as if he were the Cheshire cat and someone had just complimented his invisibility.
- When I saw the exhibition at a second venue, the spare white gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Cheshire cat was back, more vivid than ever.
- Only his outrage, like the grin of the Cheshire cat, is clear.
- He gave me a big Cheshire cat grin and a sudden, sloppy kiss.
- She gave me a Cheshire cat grin and pecked my cheek.
- How, for example, does one represent the elusive Cheshire cat whose face disappears, leaving only its trademark grin?
- We watched Alice in Wonderland, laughing at the silly Cheshire cat and Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee.
- His grin reminded me of a Cheshire cat and I decided that a couple of kilometres over the limit wouldn't hurt too much.
- There is the hallucinogenic Cheshire cat and the sleeping doormouse in Alice in Wonderland.
- I can almost feel his Cheshire cat grin over my shoulder.
- I simply nodded my head with a Cheshire cat grin.
- ‘I think it would have been better if the Cheshire cat murdered everyone in the end,’ I said as we walked towards our car.
- She smiled at him again, looking like a Cheshire cat.
PhrasesHave a broad fixed smile on one's face. 咧着嘴笑 Example sentencesExamples - He walks into the kitchen, grinning like a Cheshire cat.
- Perfect, now I just had to stop grinning like a Cheshire cat.
- Is he trying not to smile but inside grinning like a Cheshire cat?
- She turned towards Mark who was grinning like a Cheshire cat.
- Connor was grinning like a Cheshire cat when I'd finished.
- I could sense that she was probably grinning like a Cheshire cat.
- Beth looked up to see Charlie grinning like a Cheshire cat.
- I grinned like a Cheshire cat as I opened the hut door and started down the steps inside.
- I looked up to see her grinning like a Cheshire cat.
- How was I supposed to be seductive and persuasive when I was grinning like a Cheshire cat?
Synonyms grin, smile, dimple, grin like a cheshire cat, twinkle, smirk, laugh
OriginLate 18th century: of unknown origin, but it is said that Cheshire cheeses used to be marked with the face of a smiling cat. Definition of Cheshire cat in US English: Cheshire catnountʃeʃərˈkæt A cat depicted with a broad fixed grin, as popularized through Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). 柴郡猫（总咧嘴笑，通过刘易斯·卡洛尔的《艾丽丝漫游奇境记》[1865]为大众所熟知） Example sentencesExamples - His grin reminded me of a Cheshire cat and I decided that a couple of kilometres over the limit wouldn't hurt too much.
- And a gentle trip around Christ Church gives Lewis Carroll fans a treat by re-discovering the real world of Alice and the Cheshire cat.
- ‘I think it would have been better if the Cheshire cat murdered everyone in the end,’ I said as we walked towards our car.
- I can almost feel his Cheshire cat grin over my shoulder.
- There is the hallucinogenic Cheshire cat and the sleeping doormouse in Alice in Wonderland.
- With the help of a decrepit Cheshire cat, Alice must battle the undead and the queen's guards in order to save Wonderland from a horrible fate.
- He gave me a big Cheshire cat grin and a sudden, sloppy kiss.
- When I saw the exhibition at a second venue, the spare white gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Cheshire cat was back, more vivid than ever.
- The ultimate goal of the Socratic method is for the students to ask their own questions while the teacher does nothing at all, disappearing like the Cheshire cat, with a grin and a wave.
- Everyone winces a bit but Gray just sits there, giddily happy, grinning as if he were the Cheshire cat and someone had just complimented his invisibility.
- Only his outrage, like the grin of the Cheshire cat, is clear.
- I simply nodded my head with a Cheshire cat grin.
- She opened her streaming, dead green eyes, grinning so widely that she looked like a Cheshire cat.
- Just thinking about the moment makes her beam like a Cheshire cat.
- With Cheshire cat smiles, they claim they're only the messengers.
- She smiled at him again, looking like a Cheshire cat.
- How, for example, does one represent the elusive Cheshire cat whose face disappears, leaving only its trademark grin?
- A Cheshire cat grin spread across my face, ‘What, cat got your tongue?’
- We watched Alice in Wonderland, laughing at the silly Cheshire cat and Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee.
- She gave me a Cheshire cat grin and pecked my cheek.
OriginLate 18th century: of unknown origin, but it is said that Cheshire cheeses used to be marked with the face of a smiling cat. |