Citations:Cheshire cat

Noun



 * 1792, John Wolcot (under the pseudonym Peter Pindar), Pair of Lyric Epistles:
 * Lo, like a Cheshire cat our court will grin.




 * "Will you be playing croquet with the Queen today?" the Cheshire-Cat asked.
 * "I would like to very much," Alice said. "But I haven't been invited yet."
 * "You'll see me there," the Cheshire-Cat said. Then it vanished.
 * "You'll see me there," the Cheshire-Cat said. Then it vanished.








 * Eventually, nothing at all survives except, through a special dispensation, the Cheshire cat. If we increase the gravity still more, the light is pulled back to the ground near us. Now the cosmic Cheshire cat has vanished; only its gravitational grin remains.
 * Eventually, nothing at all survives except, through a special dispensation, the Cheshire cat. If we increase the gravity still more, the light is pulled back to the ground near us. Now the cosmic Cheshire cat has vanished; only its gravitational grin remains.


 * In the Cheshire Cat experiment, for example, a viewer separates her field of vision with a mirror that reflects a blank area for one eye while the other eye sees a cat (presumably Cheshire). As the viewer moves her hand across the blank area, the cat is diminished and often vanishes.
 * In the Cheshire Cat experiment, for example, a viewer separates her field of vision with a mirror that reflects a blank area for one eye while the other eye sees a cat (presumably Cheshire). As the viewer moves her hand across the blank area, the cat is diminished and often vanishes.






 * Unable to hold back a Cheshire-cat grin, Penny stepped next to her. Torn between the exaltation of knowing Diamond Sky PR was about to soar to a new galaxy, and motherly concern, she touched her daughter's arm.  "Are you okay?"
 * Unable to hold back a Cheshire-cat grin, Penny stepped next to her. Torn between the exaltation of knowing Diamond Sky PR was about to soar to a new galaxy, and motherly concern, she touched her daughter's arm.  "Are you okay?"