The term sun grin literally means a kind of squinting expression caused by facing bright sunlight. Metaphorically, though, it indicates a fixed or humorless grin. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Sun Grin”
Grant, I recently learned the meaning of the term sun grin. That was a new one on me. Do you know this?
One sun grin is this: the way that you squint when you don’t have sunglasses in order to close your eyes but still see a little bit. That is exactly it. Oh, it is. It’s the grimace you make to keep the sun out of your eyes. Yes, or as the Dictionary of American Regional English defines it, an involuntary squinting expression caused by bright sunlight, a fixed or humorless grin.
So that was the other part that I liked about it, is that, you know, even if you’re not in bright sunlight, you know that kind of grin where somebody is just sort of grinning and bearing it. Resting grin face. Resting grin face. Yeah. But they’re not finding any humor in whatever what you’re saying. Not at all. They’re looking at you with a sun grin. English is robust and plentiful, and we’d love to talk to you about your part of it. Give us a call, 877-929-9673.
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