A blank check Fourth, Turkey is obviously pleased as punch.
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I'm sure his wife is just pleased as punch over this.
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"If I lived next door to them, I'd be pleased as punch," Loik said.
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Meanwhile, conservative Tennessee is pleased as punch to steal away those jobs and warehouses.
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"I was pleased as punch," says Spencer of seeing here work in the hit Pixar franchise.
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The boy, who troopers suspect had been sick for awhile, looked pleased as punch during his impromptu sink bath.
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He's pleased as punch to be giving his own color commentary to his socialite friends, but you can see that he's feeling nostalgic.
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Then Trump's Secretary of State pick Rex Tillerson (John Goodman!!!) swung by and was pleased as punch to see his old friend Vlad.
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Branson even shared some footage of the two dudes goofing around and testing their water sports acumen, both of them looking pleased as punch.
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The Prez taped a segment for Jimmy Fallon Wednesday and seemed pleased as punch that Trump will be the standard-bearer of his party.
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TechCrunch is pleased as punch to announce our first-ever robotics event: TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics, on July 17 in Boston at MIT's stunning Kresge Auditorium.
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Alongside getting to see flat Earth celebrities, people seem just pleased as punch that they get to talk flat Earth without sneers or rolled eyes.
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They're revving up to release a new seven-inch EP via local label Choke Artist, appropriately called Thick Spit, and I'm pleased as punch to be streaming it here on Noisey.
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They introduce the characters on the periphery, too — one of the most amusing bits joins a trio of terse fundraising dads, mostly clueless but clearly pleased as punch to be along for the ride.
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As a fan of CD Projekt RED's Witcher games, albeit primarily the third, and subsequently Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski's novels that inspired it, I'm pleased as punch to see the franchise earn a Netflix adaptation, as reported last week.
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Chances are the national events of recent weeks have left you somewhere on the spectrum from despairing to agog to pleased as punch, and at the very least weary of all that the past year's political campaigning has drummed up and drawn out.
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According to your article, while the folks in Elkhart are pleased as punch that they are all earning a comfortable wage and that there are so many job openings that employers are seeking workers from elsewhere, they are upset with the president over his stand on gun control. Please.
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You'll remember that in the scene we just saw, he described this as "being sent away," but back when things were happy between the couple — when they spent their days flirting and stealing kisses before diplomatic events — he seemed pleased as punch to be jetting off on such a royal journey.
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We recently premiered some slimy new tunes from Brighton's Sea Bastard, and are now pleased as punch to present a malodorous new track from the Bristolians in SONANCE, who are poised to release a new split EP with London's own thunderous trio, Torpor (who contribute a rumbling new song of their own).
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" While scientists would have you believe disappearing ice in the northern hemisphere could contribute to devastating sea level rise that would flood coastal cities, Smith is just pleased as punch it could result in "commercial shipping lanes that provide faster, more convenient, and less costly routes between ports in Asia, Europe, and eastern North America.
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Feeling pleased as punch. Getting the results you hoped for. Feeling all's well with the world. Being contented.
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Punch was introduced in Great Britain in the seventeenth century by an Italian performer named Pietro Gimonde. The original Pulcinella was a marionette. Over time, his name was anglicized to "Punch," and he became a hand puppet. "Pleased as punch" and "beat the devil" probably originated from Punch and Judy puppet theater.
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Payn later wrote, "I remember being very nervous, not having seen him for the best part of 10 years, though I was pleased as punch to be recognised in my own right." Coward's verdict was, "Very good. Splendid."Payn, p. 26. In Magic Carpet, Payn appeared with Sydney Howard and then, after The Lilac Domino (1944),Shorter, Eric; Hoare, Philip (9 November 2005).
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It also made me laugh, almost out loud a few times, and that's no bad thing in a comedy" and again praised Stephens's "fabulous" acting, while Punch's performance was "excellent". He asserted: "Toby Stephens is fabulous as übertwerp Jack. He has a nice, pleased-as-punch-with-himself complacency, changing his voice and raising an eyebrow when he talks to ladies. There's a hint of self-doubt there, but not enough to stop him being a total cock.
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Ancient members of the show's cast ceased to be included, such as the Devil and Punch's mistress "Pretty Polly," when they came to be seen as inappropriate for young audiences. The story changes, but some phrases remain the same for decades or even centuries. For example, Punch dispatches his foes each in turn and still squeaks his famous catchphrase: "That's the way to do it!" The term "pleased as Punch" is derived from Punch and Judy; specifically, Mr. Punch's characteristic sense of gleeful self-satisfaction.
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" Anna Creech from Blogcritics commented about the lyrics, stating: "P!nk is, in many ways, fearless in her lyrics. Bristling at any perceived weakness while exposing her vulnerable side, she is "keeping it real" while also maintaining a healthy sense of humor." Writing for The A.V. Club, Andy Battaglia gave the song a negative review, commenting: "It represents the worst of the album, with a pleased-as-punch inventory of Pink's own rebelliousness and a circus-like sound that claims to have some explanation for what it means to be 'the instigator of underwear'.
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John saw his aunt coming through the crowd and comically changed the words of a song to feature her name: "Oh-oh, here comes Mimi down the aisle now..." Smith related two versions of what she thought that day after seeing him on stage: "I was horrified to behold John in front of a microphone", and "as pleased as Punch to see him up there". With help from Smith and John's headmaster, Lennon was accepted into the Liverpool College of Art because his aunt insisted that he should have some sort of academic qualifications, even though he was beginning to show an interest in music. She opposed the idea of John forming a band and disapproved of Paul McCartney because he was "working class", calling him "John's little friend". When she later met George Harrison, she "hated him" because of his thick Liverpudlian accent and Teddy Boy clothes.
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