**For some more fun facts about the history of Alice in Wonderland (and the making of the Tim Burton film), be sure to check out this post. Allusion - alluding to Alice in Wonderland.Metaphor - saying he is a Chessy cat. To grin like a Cheshire Catling became proverbial and was later shortened to grin like a Cheshire Cat. In the reign of Richard III, it's said this Cheshire Caterling stamped out poaching, was responsible for over 100 poachers being hanged, and was present "grinning from ear to ear" at each of these executions. Greetings from Chester, England My stay here in the county of Cheshire surely has given me many. The Mighty Blue KingsMeet Me In Uptown 1996 MBK EnterprisesReleased on: Auto-generated b.Supposedly, the cat was grinning because the former palatine of Cheshire once had regal privileges in England, paying no taxes to the crown.Īnother story relates the expression to the attempts of an ignorant sign painter to represent a lion rampant on the signs of many Cheshire inns (his lions supposedly looked more like grinning cats).Īnd one other story credits an eponymous forest warden of Cheshire named Caterling. Provided to YouTube by CDBabyGRINNIN LIKE A CHESSY CAT What's the origin of the phrase 'Grinning like a Cheshire cat' The origin of this is uncertain.
To grin like a Cheshire Cat probably goes back much further than Pindar, and the source could be Cheshire cheeses that were at one time molded in the form of a cat. Some definitions of the term stipulate that the smile must be so broad as to expose the gums. Grin Like a Cheshire Cat: The pseudonymous British satirist Peter Pindar (John Wolcot) first used this expression for a broad smile in the late 18th century.īut it was Lewis Carroll who popularized it in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), with the Cheshire Cat in his story, who gradually fades from Alice's views, while his grin the last part to vanish. To grin like a Cheshire cat means to smile broadly.
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