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Discover LudwigThe phrase "as tickled" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a feeling of amusement or delight, often in a lighthearted context.
Example: "She was as tickled as a child receiving a surprise gift on her birthday."
Alternatives: "as delighted" or "as amused".
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He's as tickled as I am when a water monitor lizard plunges into the water as we pass.
While always comic, Burroughs is rarely funny, unless you're as tickled as he was by such recurrent delights as boys in orgasm as they are executed by hanging.
Mr Cohen described himself as "tickled pink" by the presidential choice.
Taqwa, one element of a communitywide effort to create green spaces, has helped the neighborhood undergo a "complete transformation," said Ms. Williams, who describes herself as tickled at the number of small farmers' markets now operating during the warmer months.
DiMaggio II turns out, for instance, to be a huge fan of Woody Allen, of all people, and is as tickled to have dinner with him as he is to explain baseball to an ecstatic Henry Kissinger.
She and Abner, a handsome, kindhearted man who seems as tickled by his father-in-law as he is with his wife, met in 1979 in an acting class Foote was teaching at HB Studio in New York.
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The opera's success abroad was held up as "tickling the perverted taste of the bourgeoisie with its fidgety, screaming neurotic music".
At the D.E.A., which taps hundreds of phone lines and e-mail accounts associated with traffickers, the process of applying pressure to a criminal organization and then monitoring furtive attempts at outreach is known as "tickling the wires".
As such, it is both nostalgic for the older audience – the ones who actually experienced the decade as teens — as well as tickling the frontal lobes of those youngsters who wish they had.
Cook took 14 off Nathan Coulter-Nile's first over, thrashing past point with a hint of contained fury and Bell twice lofted Faulkner back over his head with lovely easy power, not so much bullying the bowling as tickling it expertly to death.
The demonstration began on the afternoon of May 21 , 1946 at a secret laboratory tucked into a canyon some three miles from Los Alamos, New Mexico, the birthplace of the atom bomb. Louis Slotin, a Canadian physicist, was showing his colleagues how to bring the exposed core of a nuclear weapon nearly to the point of criticality, a tricky operation known as "tickling the dragon's tail".
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