say cheese

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

say cheese

1. (idiomatic) 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).

Coordinate terms

• cheeser

Translations

elicit a smile from someone for a photograph

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 茄子 (zh) (qiézi)

• Finnish: (there's no "standard" term)
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• Japanese: チーズ (ja) (chīzu)
• Portuguese: dizer xis

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• Catalan: digueu Lluíiiis
• Icelandic: segðu sís
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• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} di patata