pie-eating grin

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
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • fish-eating grin
  • coprophagous grin
  • smile like a Cheshire cat
  • smiling like a Cheshire cat
  • 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
  • all-over oneself
  • like the cat that's got the cream
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.