English Explanatory Dictionary

mercy buckets

English dictionary entry

Meanings

phrase
  1. Thanks very much.

Word forms

mercy buckets merci buckets

Etymology

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

Related words

much grass
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