tickled to pieces

tickled to pieces

Exceptionally pleased (with or by someone or something). My family loves my girlfriend almost as much as I do, so they were all tickled to pieces to hear that we're getting married. Your mother is really tickled to pieces that you've decided to go to her alma mater.
See also: piece, tickle
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • be tickled pink
  • tickle
  • tickled pink/to death, to be
  • tickled
  • tickled pink
  • be tickled to death
  • tickled to death
  • a whale of a
  • pink
  • the bigger they come, the harder they fall