tickled pink

Example Sentences

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“The Major’s got a friend, I’ve got a name, happy campers each and every, tickled pink, over the moon, five hops forward, no hops back, if you get my meaning.”

From Literature

Well, he may not have wanted me to marry Jimmie, but he was tickled pink at the idea that I was carrying Jimmie’s child and that he was about to become a grandfather.

From Literature

“If any one of those was the final design, I’d be tickled pink,” Cox said.

From Washington Post

Seattle’s progressive mayor was tickled pink about the “block-party atmosphere” and the “community garden,” saying chirpily: “We could have the Summer of Love.”

From Washington Post

“I didn’t realize my obsession was on trend,” says Marler, who was tickled pink by the news.

From Washington Post