shit-eating grin

Meaning

A broad smile indicating self-awareness that may suggest self-satisfaction, smugness, discomfort, or embarrassment.

Translations

Spießigkeit

rictus jubilatoire

sufisença

Etymology

Possibly from a contraction of "grinning like a ’possum eating shit" (compare also happy as a pig in shit); later detached from meaning and persisting due to its vividness (cf. "there are many ways to skin a cat" or "happy as a clam").

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