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HUBLOT Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

In a shark-like grin



.... in a shark-like grin.

Is this correct? Should it have been "with a shark-like grin"?
  

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Yes, English idiom often treats people's facial expressions as items that they're dressed in. "

— Deadrat

  • Yes, English idiom often treats people's facial expressions as items that they're dressed in.
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Yes, English idiom often treats people's facial expressions as items that they're dressed in. In fact, we say, "She's wearing a frown."

"With" isn't wrong, but it's more likely to be used as "She looked at him with a shark-like grin."
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Thank you so much for your reply, deadrat, but I still don't get it. Could I ask for some more explanation?
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Since in English we can wear an expression, we say her teeth are in a shark-like grin just the way we say her feet are in sharkskin boots.
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