tickled pink

Example Sentences

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Mind you, the cinemagoers I speak to are tickled pink that Barbie's hit the big screen here.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2023

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

“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

And the family is pretty sure that somewhere, Angelo is tickled pink to know that the long-time family business is up and running once again.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 17, 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