happy as a pig in shit
English
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Adjective
[edit]- (chiefly UK and Ireland, idiomatic, vulgar, simile) Extremely happy; obviously satisfied and carefree.
- Synonyms: as happy as a pig in mud, happy as a pig in mud
- 1998 March 6, Nick Hasted, “Film: Will movies kill the soundtrack star?”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 6 August 2014:
- He's "happy as a pig in shit". "This is what I really enjoy, working with film-makers," he says.
- 2002 January 12, Michael Billington, “Culture: ‘It's like being in love’”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 6 August 2014:
- And he pays generous tribute to Noble who, he says, actively encouraged him . . . to venture further into the classics with Romeo and Juliet, Othello and Henry IV. "Speaking purely as a director, I was happy as a pig in shit."
- 2013 September 6, David Wroe, “Abbott adviser handed new paid role as envoy”, in The Age, Australia, retrieved 6 August 2014:
- "I am as happy as a pig in shit—you can quote me on that—doing what I'm doing at the moment."
- 2014 August 5, Megan Reynolds, “Tried & Tested: 10 Hippie Beauty Treatments”, in The Frisky, US, retrieved 6 August 2014:
- Beauty products are the one thing that I waste my money on. Give me a hundred bucks and plop me in the nearest Duane Reade, and I’m happy as a pig in shit.
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[edit]extremely happy