tickled pink

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.

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

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.”

“I didn’t realize my obsession was on trend,” 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.