- tickle\ to\ death
- See: to death
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
tickle\ to\ death
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tickle to death — tickle pink or tickle to death (informal) To please or amuse very much • • • Main Entry: ↑tickle … Useful english dictionary
tickle to death — See: TO DEATH … Dictionary of American idioms
tickle to death — See: TO DEATH … Dictionary of American idioms
tickle to death — make laugh uncontrollably, make laugh hard … English contemporary dictionary
tickle — v 1. titillate, titivate, stroke, pet, twiddle. 2. gratify, please, content, refresh, delight, tickle pink, tickle to death; enchant, captivate, thrill, excite, fascinate, charm; strike one s fancy, tickle one s fancy, interest, intrigue, arouse … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
tickle pink — verb fill with sublime emotion The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies He was inebriated by his phenomenal success • Syn: ↑exhilarate, ↑inebriate, ↑thrill, ↑exalt, ↑beatify • … Useful english dictionary
tickle — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. excite; gladden, delight, overjoy; please; titillate; amuse, gratify, divert. See pleasure. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To stimulate by a light touch] Syn. rub, caress, stroke, vellicate, titillate; see … English dictionary for students
Tickle torture — is the use of tickling to abuse, dominate, humiliate or even prank someone. The victim laughs even if he or she finds the experience unpleasant because the laughter is an innate reflex rather than social conditioning.[1] The term is often used to … Wikipedia
Tickle Cove Pond — was written by Mark Walker (songwriter), a fisherman and song writer who lived in Tickle Cove, Bonavista Bay in Newfoundland, Canada during the late 1800s. This song is prized locally for the beauty and wit of the lyrics, which turn a mundane… … Wikipedia
tickle — [tik′əl] vt. tickled, tickling [ME tikelen, akin to Ger dial. zickeln, OE tinclian, to tickle: for IE base see TICK2] 1. to please, gratify, delight, etc.: often used in the passive voice with slang intensifiers, as tickled pink, tickled silly,… … English World dictionary
