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Idiom

fish-eating grin

Meaning

Euphemistic form of shit-eating grin.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“He wore a fish-eating grin after winning the game.”

“She had a fish-eating grin on her face when she told me she had finally quit her job.”

“Despite the gravity of the situation, he could not suppress a fish-eating grin, clearly delighted by the chaos he had caused.”

Examples

simple

“He wore a fish-eating grin after winning the game.”

contextual

“She had a fish-eating grin on her face when she told me she had finally quit her job.”

complex

“Despite the gravity of the situation, he could not suppress a fish-eating grin, clearly delighted by the chaos he had caused.”

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