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with pleasure
idiom
—used to say that one is happy to do something for someone
"Would you deliver a message for me?" "Yes, with pleasure."
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Don’t mix business with pleasure: Be wary of anyone who’s quick to profess strong feelings for you and then asks for money.
—Kim Komando, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2024
Disproving the stereotype that Canadians are inherently mild-mannered people, David Cronenberg's 1983 body-horror masterpiece Videodrome blends pain with pleasure, violence with entertainment, and human consciousness with pixelated transmissions from a nightmare realm.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2024
Learn and share your findings, but don’t mix business with pleasure.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024
Orgasms increase dopamine levels—a neurotransmitter associated with pleasure, reward, and motivation—helping counteract irritability, sadness, or melancholy.9
Can an Orgasm Cure Your Headache?
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—Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 7 Oct. 2024
In the nineteen-fifties and sixties, naturism came to be associated less with medicine than with pleasure.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2024
The brain regions that are activated during romantic love include the areas associated with pleasure and reward, such as the striatum and orbitofrontal cortex.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
That’s impressive for a journey that includes multiple continents and climates—and beyond so for one that mixed business with pleasure: the mother-daughter duo attended a wedding and a trade fashion show back to back.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2024
However, marrying fitness with pleasure does have its downsides.
—Katie Jackson, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2024
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“With pleasure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/with%20pleasure. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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