tickled to death
Example Sentences
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“Am I tickled to death that we’re 1-0 and we beat Cincinnati? Yes. I don’t want to play them. We’ve already played them once. That’s plenty.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2022
Gayle Wellborn and Perry Blickenstaff called it an "emotional time", but they were "tickled to death" to be in the East of England for the first time.
From BBC • Aug. 20, 2022
“We’d welcome, absolutely, these counties and be tickled to death to have them.”
From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2021
We were tickled to death about it, because none of us wanted to go into an invasion of Japan.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2015
I was walking along singing my lungs out when they came tearing out of the underbrush, wiggling and twisting, and tickled to death to be with me.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
