tickle someone's funny bone

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Verb

tickle someone's funny bone (third-person singular simple present tickles someone's funny bone, present participle tickling someone's funny bone, simple past and past participle tickled someone's funny bone)

1. (idiomatic) To amuse; to make someone smile, to make someone laugh, to be humorous to someone.

   I thought this cartoon might be just the sort of thing that would tickle your funny bone.

Translations

to amuse; to make someone laugh or smile

• Finnish: kutittaa jonkun nauruhermoja