| 单词 | to grin like a cheshire cat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto grin like a Cheshire cat f. to fight like Kilkenny cats: to engage in a mutually destructive struggle. to bell the cat, see bell v.5 1, to hang the bell about the cat's neck, see bell n.1 9. to let the cat out of the bag: to disclose a guarded secret: see bag n. to grin like a Cheshire cat (see Notes & Queries 1852 V. 402). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > smiling > smile [verb (intransitive)] > grin(s) grina1500 girn1562 to grin like a Cheshire cat1770 1770–1819 J. Wolcot in Wks. (1812) 91 Lo! like a Cheshire cat our court will grin. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxiv. 236 Mr. Newcome says..‘That woman grins like a Cheshire cat’. to grin like a Cheshire cat to grin like a Cheshire cat [of undetermined origin] . ΚΠ 1770–1819 J. Wolcot in Wks. (1812) 91 Lo! like a Cheshire cat our court will grin. 1837–40 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 49 Lavender was there..grinnin like a chessy cat. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxiv. 236 Mr. Newcome says..‘That woman grins like a Cheshire cat’. 1865 ‘L. Carroll’ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland vi. 82 ‘Please, would you tell me,’ said Alice.. ‘why your cat grins like that?’ ‘It's a Cheshire cat,’ said the Duchess. to grin like a Cheshire cat 3. Phrases. to grin and abide, to grin and bear it: to submit to one's fate with no other sign of impatience than a grin. to grin in a glass case (slang: see quot. 1785). to grin like a Cheshire cat (see cat n.1 13f). to grin through a horse-collar (see horse-collar n.). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > must as decreed by fate [verb (intransitive)] > endure one's fate to dree one's weirdc1400 to grin and abide1785 to grin and bear ita1827 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Grin To grin in a glass case, to be anatomised for murder. 1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. 424 Thus we have a proverb where no help could be had in pain, ‘to grin and abide’. 1813 E. S. Barrett Heroine III. xxxix. 151 I heard a sudden disturbance below; his lordship crying out, ‘Oh, what shall I do?’ and Jerry bidding him ‘grin and bear it’. a1827 W. Hickey Mem. (1960) viii. 132 Vexed at..the childishness of his behaviour, I answered, ‘I recommend you to grin and bear it’—an expression used by sailors after a long continuance of bad weather. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ in M. Porter Ann. Publishing House (1898) III. ii. 51 ‘Adam Bede’ flourishes, so I grins and bears it! 1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. ix. 190 I must grin and bear it. < as lemmas |
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