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grin like a Cheshire cat, to smile or grin inscrutably. A cat with an enormous grin encountered by Alice in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. The cat tends to disappear, leaving only its smile hanging in the air. Note: âSmiling like a Cheshire catâ refers to anyone with a conspicuous and long-lasting smile.
As the Cheshire Cat points out, everyone's mad in Wonderland, and it is true to say that all of the characters are eccentric, at least, and if they weren't, then they wouldn't be there. The phrase as mad as a hatter was well known in Lewis Carroll's day, and was a probable inspiration for the character of the Hatter. At the time, many hatters suffered from mercury poisoning.