Pleased as Punch
. Greatly delighted. Our old friend Punch is always singing with self-satisfaction in all his naughty ways, and his evident “pleasure” is contagions to the beholders.
“You could skip over to Europe whenever you liked; mamma would be pleased as Punch.”—R. Grant.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.