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tickled pink
Idioms and Phrases
Also, tickled to death . Delighted, as in I was tickled pink when I got his autograph , or His parents were tickled to death when he decided to marry her . The first term, first recorded in 1922, alludes to one's face turning pink with laughter when one is being tickled. The variant, clearly a hyperbole, dates from about 1800.Example Sentences
鈥淚f any one of those was the final design, I鈥檇 be tickled pink,鈥 Cox said.
Seattle鈥檚 progressive mayor was tickled pink about the 鈥渂lock-party atmosphere鈥 and the 鈥渃ommunity garden,鈥 saying chirpily: 鈥淲e could have the Summer of Love.鈥
鈥淚 didn鈥檛 realize my obsession was on trend,鈥 says Marler, who was tickled pink by the news.
"When he wrote his autobiography, quite a few years ago, my grandmother was still alive and he does mention Mrs Breen's shop and she was tickled pink," she added.
"It's affirmatively good to remove Bloom and Barger from the board, men who said they were 'tickled pink' with DeJoy's actions."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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