tickled to death

“He’s just tickled to death,” Brienne said of her son.

“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.”

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.

“We’d welcome, absolutely, these counties and be tickled to death to have them.”

“I’m tickled to death for the current generation of players and all the money they get,” Mr. Trabert said in a 1991 teleconference call with reporters.