pleased as punch
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.08 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of pleased as Punch.
Example Sentences
- ""[…]Now,—what'll the old woman say?" "She'll be pleased as Punch, I should think," said Stanbury."
- "Then with a little start of remembrance he said, “Mary, write and give up that school. Stay and help your mother. I’m as pleased as Punch, now I’ve thought of that.”"
- "Sally looked at him with her clear eyes. “Aren’t you glad?” she asked again. “I thought you’d be as pleased as Punch.”"
- "Near-synonyms: self-satisfied, complacent, smug, like a pig in clover, happy as a pig in shit"
- "He was out, too, when I called at his hotel; but once, I had the good fortune to see him, with his hat curiously on one side, looking as pleased as Punch, and being driven, in an open cab, in the Champs Elysées."
- "Those other "pure" women had nearly taken all the balls out of me, but she was all right that way. She wanted me, and made no bones about it. And I was as pleased as punch. That was what I wanted: a woman who wanted me to fuck her. So I fucked her like a good un."