From the Horse's Mouth
S02 E03: Pleased as Punch
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How pleased can one person be? And what does punch have to do with it?
This episode of From the Horse’s Mouth takes you back to a time before streaming and television held our attention, a time when entertainment was simple and strange sayings seemed to pop up around every turn.
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From the Horse's Mouth is a local public television program presented by WTVP
From the Horse's Mouth
S02 E03: Pleased as Punch
Episode 3 | 40sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of From the Horse’s Mouth takes you back to a time before streaming and television held our attention, a time when entertainment was simple and strange sayings seemed to pop up around every turn.
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Pleased as Punch.
If you are exceedingly happy or delighted, you might say you are pleased as punch.
This has nothing to do with the beverage consumed at weddings.
In this case, punch is one half of the "Punch and Judy Puppet Shows" that were once common across Great Britain.
Punch takes great pleasure in hitting people with a club.
Today, we can be pleased as punch without the violence.
And that's where the phrase pleased as punch comes from.
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