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- From: rhonda@cc.usu.edu (Tye McQueen, E.)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: More English Excrement
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.214034.62213@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:40:34 MDT
- References: <92355.212038HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
- Reply-To: tye@spillman.com
- Organization: Spillman Data Systems
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- In <92355.212038HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>, <HERSCH@auvm.american.edu> writes:
- > By the way, here's a "shit" expression that I've never quite understood,
- > and maybe someone with more reference materials or a deeper understanding
- > of slang than I have can enlighten me. The expression is "shit-eating
- > grin". I've never really understood what particular sort of grin this
- > is, nor why someone eating shit would be grinning. Any thoughts?
-
- Akin to "You look like the cat that just swallowed the canary."
-
- An extreme form of grin of someone (suspected of or) caught in the middle
- of doing something they didn't want to be caught doing. I guess eating
- shit could fall under that category.
-
- Hearing it explained doesn't make much sense. But it made a lot of sense
- to me the first time I heard it used in context.
-
- Tye
-