Stephen Nash went to the gas chamber in August ’59. He spit some chewing gum at a chaplain right before they strapped him in. He sucked down the cyanide fumes with a big shit-eating grin.
2001, Philip Preville, "Summit of the absurd," Montreal Monitor, 26 Apr. (retrieved 28 Jan. 2008),
What I'm doing right now—lounging around, wearing a shit-eating grin—is the most irresponsible, despicable, reprehensible thing I could possibly do.