thank-you-ma'am

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It was a "thank-you-ma'am" in the middle of the road that caused

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  • It was a "thank-you-ma'am" in the middle of the road that caused —  Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times
  • Thus we do not believe that she willfully drove over every rut and thank-you-ma'am on the road, scattering us generously over the tonneau, and finally, when —  Tish
  • Thus I have commonly avoided the Great White Road -- the broad, smooth turnpike -- rock-bottomed and rolled by a State -- without so much as a loitering curve to whet one's curiosity, nor a thank-you-ma'am to laugh over, nor a sinful hill to test your endurance -- not so much as a dreamy valley! —  The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment
  • She did not know till much later that owing to the thank-you-ma'am which they reached simultaneously with the word "suddenly" that when —  I've Married Marjorie
 

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  1. From its causing the head to nod as though in acknowledgment of a favor.
 

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