亚洲网紅露点

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thank-you-ma'am

[ thangk-yoo-mam ]

noun

  1. a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.


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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of thank-you-ma'am1

An Americanism dating back to 1840鈥50
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Example Sentences

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To put it nicely, he's kind of a wham, bam, thank-you-ma'am sort of guy.

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Then it went over a thank-you-ma鈥檃m and slid a little faster.

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It was a sharp February night, but he slept in the barn beside his prize, and the next morning drove home, dreading every drift and thank-you-ma鈥檃m, for fear they might upset, and the slight crate that held the fox might break.

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It pays the merest thank-you-ma'am to Webster's English, draws a lot of its vigor and flavor from Gullah, an African slave dialect still spoken by the white and Negro populations of the rice islands along the South Atlantic littoral, adds a touch of Huguenot French and a dash of regional accent that is as deep-rooted and mysterious as the brooding cypresses.

But believing that the roads are certain to be rough, the delegates felt there was all the more need for shock absorbers锟絫o save the whole world from being jarred by every thank-you-ma'am that each nation hits.

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