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mercy buckets

phrase

Etymology

A jocular malapropism (or phono-semantic matching) of French merci beaucoup (“thanks a lot”); influenced by buckets of (“lots of”).

  1. derived from merci beaucoup

Definitions

  1. Thanks very much.

    • "Well, anyhow, thanks a lot, Mr. Dumont," he added. "Mercy buckets, as you French say."
    • Mercy buckets—a pleasure doing business with you, dude.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA