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Chuffed as nuts
Last updated: 3/21/2025
Chuffed as nuts
The condition of being highly pleased, origin unknown. First used in the Film Review Show podcast when Mark Kermode was reviewing Bug after seeing it at Cannes in 2006.
Shortly after Wittertainment went onto Twitter, a number of Tweeters began mentioning how Mark used the "... as nuts" suffix to fit a lot of things - not just chuffed, but also The Unborn being "dumb as nuts", or Franklyn being "disappointing as nuts". Simon Mayo wondered if nuts could possibly be that versatile. Mark bridled at this, pointing out that it now seemed they had got to that point in their relationship where one of them was saying to the other, "you know that thing you do? It's really annoying..."