This is not an idiom. When you see AS ___ AS ___ then you're looking at A Simile. This one is comparing someone's mood to the mood of Punch, the puppet in Punch and Judy shows. Punch was almost always gleeful because he always won at the end of the shows.
The only common idiom is "pleased as punch" (elated, very satisfied).One common idiom "as happy as a dog with two tails" has been transliterated into pleased by some non-English references.
Take a punch means to take a bow. When the sir won the trophy, his students took a punch.
The fighter knew how to take a punch. He had survived many challenges in life and had learned how to take a punch.
Before electronic entertainment, on May 9th., 1662, the portable English sidewalk puppet show 'The Punch and Judy', introduced the always happy Punch, usually drunk, but always henpecked and eventually beaten by his wife, Judy Every scheme of Punch's would eventually fail, and domestic violence would ensue, but, before that, he would be very pleased with himself 'Pleased as Punch', then, would represent blissful pleasure, with a hint of a disaster to come
Alliteration
Proud, or pleased as Punch means very satisfied with oneself. Punch, from the puppet show Punch and Judy ("Pontius and Judas"), is a strutting, quarrelsome, hook-nosed comic character. Although associated with Pontius (Pilate), the name is from Punchinello, which probably derives from the Neapolitan Italian dialect polecenella meaning a young turkey cock.
The phrase "as proud as punch" means feeling extremely pleased or satisfied with oneself or an accomplishment. It originates from the character Punch from the puppet show "Punch and Judy," who was always portrayed as proud and boastful.
RFP is not an idiom. It's an abbreviation.
It's not really an idiom. It means "what are you thinking about."
It is not an idiom, it means your nose is itching.
I guess you're asking about the idiom to "sock someone," which means to punch someone hard.
idiom means expression like a page in a book