Cheshire cat
noun
- 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）。
短语
grin like a Cheshire cat
- have a broad fixed smile on one's face咧着嘴笑。
词源
late 18th cent.: of unknown origin， but it is said that Cheshire cheeses used to be marked with the face of a smiling cat.