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Say cheese
WiktionaryText
Verb
- 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".