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A.Word.A.Day--thank-you-ma'am thank-you-ma'am (THANGK yoo mam) noun A bump or depression in a road. [From the nod of the head that results when one passes over it in a vehicle, as if in an acknowledgment of a favor.] "We all have our troubles. It isn't everybody that can ride to heaven in a C-spring shay, as my poor husband used to say; and life's a road that's got a good many thank-you-ma'ams to go bumpin' over, says he." Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Guardian Angel, 1868. This week's theme: words that seem unreal. X-Bonus The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. -Hungarian proverb

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