tickle someone's fancy
verbDefinitions
To amuse, entertain, or appeal to someone
To amuse, entertain, or appeal to someone; to stimulate someone's imagination in a favorable manner.
- But the notion of Ralph Nickleby having directed it to be done, tickled his fancy so much, that he could not refrain from cracking all his ten fingers in succession.
- Mr. Adams, who loves a joke, and is not a lunatic, notwithstanding his opening words, tickled their fancy for an hour with quotations from Shakespeare and the editorial columns of The Brooklyn Eagle.
- There will not be any Nancy to tickle my fancy in a kitchen full of handerkerchiefs and beckoning, unmade beds.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA