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Etymology
Jocular malapropism of French merci beaucoup (“thanks a lot”); influenced by buckets of (“lots of”).
Phrase
mercy buckets
- (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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