单词 | tickled pink |
释义 | tickled pinkSEE SYNONYMS FOR tickled pink ON THESAURUS.COM 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. Words nearby tickled pinktickey, tick fever, ticking, ticklace, tickle, tickled pink, tickle one's fancy, tickler, tickler coil, tickler file, tickle the ivories The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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