tickled pink
Example Sentences
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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 • Oct. 14, 2022
"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.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2022
“She would shift a shoulder, settle her mouth, change behind the eyes. And some deep, daughterly part of me was tickled pink by it.”
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2020
“Until they can find a newer formulation, then I‘m completely tickled pink with the decision,” he said.
From Reuters • Jan. 19, 2018
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 "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
