![]() In his Annotated Alice, Gardner points out that the phrases mad as a hatter and mad as a March hare (similar to hare-brained) were both current when Carroll was writing, which explains at least partly why he invented these two characters. Chessy Cat, Director: The Diamond Chronicles. The Cat gives Alice directions to the Mad Hatter and the March Hare (‘they’re both mad’, but then ‘we’re all mad here’). ‘Oh, you’re sure to do that,’ said the Cat, ‘if you only walk long enough.’ He had a grin on his face like a Cheshire Cat.a Cheshire. He is able to completely dissolve his body, or just a part of it, when he wants to. Powers and Abilities Chessur's skills of evaporating, floating and shapeshifting are his most well-known characteristics. ‘-so long as I get somewhere,’ Alice added as an explanation. If someone is grinning like a Cheshire cat or like the Cheshire cat, they are smiling very widely. Chessur is a cheshire cat with a long grey fur with light blue stripes, big turquoise eyes and razor sharp pointy teeth. ![]() ‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat. Provided to YouTube by CDBabyGRINNIN' LIKE A CHESSY CAT The Mighty Blue KingsMeet Me In Uptown 1996 MBK EnterprisesReleased on: Auto-generated b. Love N Care team does daily follow up calls while Chessy has been on the road to recovery. Dr Bedi is attentive to every detail during the exam. There is a holistic approach to each examination performed. ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat. My Chessy Cat is in need of extensive care and Dr Bedi is there for us every step of the way. ‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ When Alice first sees it, lying on the hearth, she asks the Duchess why it’s grinning, and receives the reply: ‘It’s a Cheshire cat, and that’s why.’ This explains nothing, but it does strengthen the creature’s mystique – which increases when she meets the cat a little later, in the wood, and it answers her questions in gnomic fashion: The Cat is one of the best known of Carroll’s characters. Donald proposes instead that cat as old slang for prostitute could ‘allude to a girl in a well-patronized Cheshire inn smiling invitingly’. He cites Eric Partridge’s suggestion that Cheshire here is ‘a corruption of cheeser’, but doesn’t think cats like cheese enough to make this etymology likely. Graeme Donald’s Dictionary of Modern Phrase finds the latter hypothesis ‘suspect’ because of the ‘very crumbly texture’ of the cheese in question. Martin Gardner, in The Annotated Alice, notes two possibilities: that it derives from grinning lions painted on the signs of inns in Cheshire – where Carroll grew up – or that it comes from a tradition of Cheshire cheeses being moulded into the shape of grinning cats, or marked that way. That the phrase’s origin is unknown has led to some interesting speculation.
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