pie-eating grin

A smug, self-satisfied, or overly pleased smile, especially one that (intentionally or unintentionally) irritates others. She's been walking around with that pie-eating grin on her face ever since she found out she got into Harvard.

See also: grin

See also:

fish-eating grin
coprophagous grin
smile like a Cheshire cat
smiling like a Cheshire cat
cat that swallowed the canary, (look) like the
look like the cat that ate the canary
look like the cat that swallowed the canary
the cat that ate the canary
the cat that swallowed the canary
have a try at (someone)

References in periodicals archive

Lemmon's actor son Christopher recalled: "There's a picture of my father holding me up in a nappy and I've got a big pie-eating grin on my face.

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