Post by silverdragon on Jan 30, 2015 10:49:54 GMT
No one knows where the expression "to grin like a Cheshire cat" originated, but it wasn't with Carroll. The Cheshire cat is a well-known character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but the expression, meaning a sneering smile that shows the gums, existed long before he wrote the book. There is no such breed of cat.
I have no idea... and I lived in Cheshire.
As a Kid, we all presumed it came from the book?...
But now I find it existed before the book....
