fish-eating grin

A form of shit-eating grin — A broad smile indicating self-awareness that may suggest self-satisfaction, smugness, discomfort, or embarrassment.

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Meanings

nounfish-eating grin (plural fish-eating grins)

plural fish-eating grins

  1. euphemisticidiomaticEuphemistic form of shit-eating grin.

    Then the Gypsy makes a crack about my accent. "You talk like a Spanish cow," he says with a fish-eating grin.

    2008, Joel Stratte-McClure, The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean, →ISBN
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    I had a few questions for him myself, but I just stood there and stared. He had a fish-eating grin on his face.

    2002, Brian Cruver, Anatomy of greed: The Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider, →ISBN, page 337

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
shit-eating grin
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