mercy buckets

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Jocular malapropism of French merci beaucoup (thanks a lot); influenced by buckets of (lots of).

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mercy buckets

  1. (humorous) Thanks very much.
    • 1929 "Franklin W. Dixon" (Penguin, →ISBN) Hardy Boys 7: The Secret of the Caves, Chapter 16, p.89:
      "Well, anyhow, thanks a lot, Mr. Dumont," he added. "Mercy buckets, as you French say."
    • 2008 Jonathan Nasaw (Simon and Schuster, →ISBN) Fear Itself p.187:
      "Mercy buckets—a pleasure doing business with you, dude."

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