Happy Bunny
| Neil: | Hello, I'm Neil. I'm having a bad day. Something terrible's happened. My goodness, what's that approaching?! |
| Li: | Hello! Hello, Neil! |
| Neil: | It's Li! What's going on? |
| Li: | You'll never guess what's happened to me! |
| Neil: | You do look like a happy bunny! |
| Li: | Ha ha, yes! I am! A happy bunny, which literally means a happy rabbit. It's another of those strange English expressions. What Neil actually means is that I look happy. Why rabbits are involved I don't know, that's just the way it is. Here are some examples of this expression in use.
Examples |
| That's brilliant news, you must be a very happy bunny! | |
| I'm a happy bunny today because I passed my English test. |
| Neil: | I'm not a happy bunny. You see ... Something awful happened today. |
| Li: | Oh. Neil is not a happy bunny—that's something you can say to describe a person who is unhappy.
Examples |
| Someone's stolen Michael's car. He is not a happy bunny! | |
| Jane has not been a happy bunny ever since she broke up with her boyfriend. |
| Neil: | I had a ticket for tonight's concert with Kyladonna Jagger, the most famous and brilliant superstar alive! I was such a happy bunny. |
| Li: | Wow! I'm also going to see the Kyladonna Jagger concert tonight, that's why I'm so happy! |
| Neil: | I was eating lunch in the park and I put the ticket next to me. But a gust of wind blew it away! |
| Li: | Oh dear. Funny, that's just the opposite of what happened to me. I was sitting in the park and suddenly a ticket landed on my lap! |
| Neil: | Hang on, let me see that. |
| Li: | Here it is. See? Here is my ticket. |
| Neil: | That's mine! |
| Li: | No, it's not yours. It's mine! |
| Neil: | Give it back! |
| Li: | No, it's mine! |
| Neil and Li: | Oh no! |
| Li: | Now no-one is going to the concert! |
| Neil: | Now I'm definitely not a happy bunny. |
| Li: | Nor am I. |