Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to be anatomized.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: You’ll be scragged, ottomised, and grin in a glass case, you’ll be hanged, anatomised, and your skeleton kept in a glass case.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1834		(con. 1737–9) W.H. Ainsworth Rookwood (1857) 143: ‘Ay, you may well ask whether that old dried-up otomy, who ought to grin in a glass case for folks to stare at, be kith and kin of such a bang-up cove as your fancy man, Luke,’ said Turpin.
1859		‘Scene in a London Flash-Panny’ Matsell Vocabulum 98: May I dance at my death, and grin in a glass-case, if I didn’t think you had been put to bed with a shovel.
1881		Trumble ‘On the Trail’ in Sl. Dict. (1890) 42: [as cit. 1859].

see yodel in the canyon (of love) v. (2)

see basket of chips under basket n.¹

(Aus.) a broad grin.

1885

Bulletin (Sydney) 2 May 10/3: The [erasure] warriors came up with grins on ’em like cheese-gashes, and when they were got into a line that was first cousin to a rainbow, the Colonel said: […].

to grin broadly.

1902

H. Baumann Londinismen (2nd edn).

see not to be sneezed at under sneeze v.¹