bundle of joy

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bundle of joy

A newborn baby. We threw a baby shower for Jessica today so she can get all she needs in preparation for her little bundle of joy. I know pregnancy can be awful, but just think of the precious little bundle of joy you'll be bringing home when it's all over. Aw, is this your little bundle of joy? She's so adorable!

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bundle of joy

and bundle from heaven

Fig. a baby. We are expecting a bundle of joy next September. When your little bundle from heaven arrives, things will be a little hectic for a while.

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a bundle of joy

INFORMAL

A bundle of joy is a baby, especially one that has just been born. Our family are all as overjoyed as we are at the early arrival of our little bundle of joy.

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Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012

bundle of joy

a baby, especially one who is newly born or whose birth is keenly anticipated.

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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017

a bundle of ˈjoy

(informal) a baby

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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017

bundle of joy

and bundle from heaven

n. a baby. We are expecting a bundle of joy next September. Robert, your little bundle from heaven smells like a saddle bag from the other place.

See also: bundle, joy, of

bundle of joy

A baby.

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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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New Delhi [India], Oct 22 ( ANI ): American actors Jeremy Allen White and wife Addison Timlin welcomed their bundle of joy, a baby girl named Ezer Billie White.

Addison Timlin welcomes first child

Are you happy that Eric and Jessie James are expecting another bundle of joy? Drop a comment below.

Eric Decker, Jessie James Expecting Baby No. 3

From Saturday, July 1, until Sunday, July 23, our photographers from ABC Photography will be at St John's Shopping Centre (upper mall) between 10am and 4.30pm Monday-Saturday and 11am-4pm on Sundays (with a short break for lunch between 12.30-1.30pm), ready to make your bundle of joy a superstar.

Could your little one be crowned the ECHO Baby of the Year? why not enter your child into our free competition?

Thankfully, he's a deft touch at lobbing his tot around like she was a leather skin bundle of joy as he messed around during a half-time break at a game in Northampton.

BELLE'S UP AND UNADER

And we were even more excited to find out Anna, 29, is pregnant (hopefully not with a half human, half vampire bundle of joy).

TRUE BUMP

So Father's Day really means one bundle of joy, and another bundle that needs a gym membership or a strict diet to shift it.

Dads bear burden too; BEHIND THE HEADLINES Jackie Bird

Literally a bundle of joy, let's hope that it stays like that.

LG Lucid 4G

Summary: Doctors in Wuhu, eastern China, have delivered a particularly big bundle of joy - a baby boy weighing more than 6.5kg.

'Giant' 6.5kg baby born in Wuhu, China

A DEVASTATED family have appealed for help to find a hit-and-run driver who left their six-year-old "bundle of joy" to die.

PARENTS APPEAL FOR HELP TO TRACE HIT-AND-RUN KILLER

WITH fantastic prizes up for grabs be sure to make a date and take your bundle of joy along to one of the centres listed right to be photographed.

The fantastic prizes on offer

THE SAME TO YOU The Christmas cheer, And the same to you We all have gifts to share Like a bundle of joy For the coming year The same to you But do they really care Are they just passing words Of I don''t know And the frost is zero below The windows are frozen With patterned leaves Take a look at the detail And the trains have been late And what shall we feed The birds before they feel hunger In and out we go On our daily chores The same to you Mince pies and smiles And carol singing Has nearly all been done The same to you And kisses of cheer For the coming year And what does the future Hold for you?

READERS' POEMS

And freelancing allowed me to housetrain our puppy (Zeke is our 6-month-old Havanese and a bundle of joy).

Scientific American

THE mother of a five-year-old boy who died after being shot by an air rifle described him as a "gorgeous, cheeky, beautiful, bright little bundle of joy".

A GORGEOUS, CHEEKY BUNDLE OF JOY; Mum's tribute to tragic air rifle boy, 5

THE mother of a five-year-old boy who died after being shot by an air rifle described him last night as a "gorgeous, cheeky, beautiful, bright little bundle of joy".

Boy of 5 killed in air rifle accident

If you tire of one design, you can easily replace it with another, like this gorgeous Hepburn print, or even a favourite snapshot of your little bundle of joy.