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whatever tickles your pickle

whatever tickles your pickle phrase: synonym of whatever floats your boat.

Phrase

whatever tickles your pickle

  1. (idiomatic, informal) Synonym of whatever floats your boat.
    • Give up chocolate, fine. Give up cholesterol, well, it’s better if you do that anyway. Give up whistling the national anthem while taking a shower, hey, whatever tickles your pickle. But give up sex? Let’s think about this.1995 March 3, Viet Dinh, “Vietisms: Everything You Wanted to Know about Sects but Were Afraid to Ask”, in Mark Binker, Johnny J. Wong, editors, The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, volume XCIX, number 18...
    • Well, it’s hardly rocket science – just shake the maracas in time to the music, or at least the balls as they hit the circles, and hey presto! – you’re samba-ing. Shaking your arse is of course optional, as is wearing a poncho, sombrero and stupid moustache. Whatever tickles your pickle.2000 December, Alex Warren, “Samba de Amigo”, in Simon Phillips, editor, Dreamcast Magazine, number 16, Bournemouth, Dorset: Paragon Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 48, columns 2–3

Examples of whatever tickles your pickle in a sentence

  • “Whatever tickles your pickle,” she said.2006, Jeremy Iversen, “Two Weeks Go Deep”, in High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student, New York, N.Y.: Atria Books...
  • Whatever floats your boat, whatever melts your butter, whatever humps your camel, whatever sizzles your bacon, whatever tickles your pickle…2008 May 14, Karan Bajaj, “It’s All a Waste”, in Keep off the Grass, New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers India; India Today Group, →ISBN...
  • “I’m not gay,” I said under my breath. / “Hey, whatever tickles your pickle, man.2008 May 27, Meagan Brothers, “Attack of the Giant Ants”, in Debbie Harry Sings in French, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN...

Synonyms of whatever tickles your pickle

Questions about whatever tickles your pickle

What does whatever tickles your pickle mean?
Whatever tickles your pickle means synonym of whatever floats your boat.
How do you use whatever tickles your pickle in a sentence?
“Whatever tickles your pickle,” she said.
What part of speech is whatever tickles your pickle?
Whatever tickles your pickle is a phrase.

Words near whatever tickles your pickle in the dictionary

  1. whatever it takes
  2. whatever melts your butter
  3. whatever next
  4. whatever sizzles your bacon
  5. whatever the case may be
  6. whatever tickles your pickle
  7. whatever will be, will be
  8. whatever winds your clock
  9. whatever you do
  10. whatever you say
  11. whatever's

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