"mercy buckets" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Jocular malapropism of French merci beaucoup (“thanks a lot”); influenced by buckets of (“lots of”).",
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          "ref": "1929 \"Franklin W. Dixon\" (Penguin) Hardy Boys 7: The Secret of the Caves, Chapter 16, p.89",
          "text": "\"Well, anyhow, thanks a lot, Mr. Dumont,\" he added. \"Mercy buckets, as you French say.\""
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          "ref": "2008 Jonathan Nasaw (Simon and Schuster) Fear Itself p.187",
          "text": "Mercy buckets—a pleasure doing business with you, dude."
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        "Thanks very much."
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        "(humorous) Thanks very much."
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          "word": "much grass"
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  "etymology_text": "Jocular malapropism of French merci beaucoup (“thanks a lot”); influenced by buckets of (“lots of”).",
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        "(humorous) Thanks very much."
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