2007-08-09 08:50:12 · 16 answers · asked by Heather 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
alice in wonderland?
2007-08-09 08:52:28 · answer #1 · answered by Smilesss :) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The awesome Cheshire cat on Alice in Wonderland.
2007-08-09 08:53:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It comes from the 'grinning cheshire cat' from Alice in Wonderland
2007-08-09 08:52:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
"The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat appearing in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. It appears and disappears at will, engaging Alice in amusing but sometimes vexing conversation. The cat sometimes points out philosophical points that annoy Alice. It does, however, appear to cheer her up when it turns up suddenly at the Queen of Hearts' croquet field, and when sentenced to death baffles everyone by making its body disappear, but its head remain visible, sparking a massive argument between the King, the Queen and the executioner about whether or not something that does not have a body can indeed be beheaded.
At one point, the cat disappears gradually until nothing is left but its grin, prompting Alice to remark that she has often seen a cat without a grin but never a grin without a cat. This has become a point of notability for the cat: most people remember it most strongly performing its vanishing act."
(Wikipedia)
2007-08-09 09:55:28 · answer #4 · answered by Jude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland
2007-08-09 09:42:01 · answer #5 · answered by imaprincessindisguise 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alice in Wonderland!
The cheshire cat had a huge grin that went from ear to ear.
Therefore, when someone smiles like a cheshire cat, he has a very big smile on his face.
2007-08-09 08:56:49 · answer #6 · answered by mjh 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you never read Alice in Wonderland? One of the sub-stories is when Alice comes upon the Cheshire Cat who is grinning from ear to ear and even when he disappears his grin remains. It has been absorbed into the English Vocabulary.
2007-08-10 12:34:01 · answer #7 · answered by Terry G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Cheshire cat...in Alice in Wonderland...it grinned and gradually disappeared so that only its grin was left, until that went as well.
2007-08-09 08:53:55 · answer #8 · answered by Knownow't 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Cheshire cat was in Alice in Wounderland, which was created in Daresbury, Cheshire. The Cheshire cat in the books had a great big cheesy smile on its face.
2007-08-13 02:13:31 · answer #9 · answered by leigha 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although the saying appears in "Alices adventures in wonderland" by Lewis Carroll written in 1865, the saying was already in use nearly a hundred years earlier in 1770.
It referred to the fact that Cheshire Cheeses were at one time moulded in the shape of a grinning cat.
2007-08-09 09:03:18 · answer #10 · answered by freddiem 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
From the Lewis Carroll book Alice in Wonderland
2007-08-09 08:54:11 · answer #11 · answered by suzy c 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋