Meaning of whatever tickles your pickle | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of whatever floats your boat.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

““You never struck me as a big birthday-party type,” she said. / “Yeah,” Thea said, “I know, but I used to have one every year back at CdM, and sixteen’s like a big birthday, you know?” / Evelyn ate a slice of home-dried kiwi. “Whatever tickles your pickle,” she said.”

“‘What are you going to do? Charge me with saving the girl’s life?’ / Hadden closed his notebook and stared at Delaney for a long, condescending moment. ‘We’ll let you know what we are going to charge you with when we decide.’ / ‘Whatever tickles your pickle, Richard.’”

“Do what you feel like, and hope that it sticks. If it doesn’t, throw it again. Maybe it sticks the next time over. And if it doesn’t, who cares? It’s just one insignificant life wasted in the vast ocean of lives all around. Whatever floats your boat, whatever melts your butter, whatever humps your camel, whatever sizzles your bacon, whatever tickles your pickle…”

““I’m not gay,” I said under my breath. / “Hey, whatever tickles your pickle, man. I don’t pass judgment.[…]””

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