Complete Definition of "say cheese"

English

Verb
infl|en|verb|head=to say cheese

  1. idiom Used imperatively to elicit a smile from someone for a photograph by their saying "cheese" (the vowel of which, when pronounced as is usual in English, forces a somewhat smile-shaped mouth).

Usage notes
The term seems to have led to the word "cheese" becoming a slang synonym for "smile".

Translations
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<--Pronouncing the second word should force whoever says the word to smile. The Spanish esp. doesn't look right./->
Catalan: digueu Lluíiiis
Finnish: sano muikku
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Icelandic: segðu sís
Spanish: di patata
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