thank-you-ma'ams

You have merely come to one of those thank-you-ma'ams in story writing that all authors suffer.

Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point Alice B. Emerson

Farmer Green gave Johnnie the reins; and Ebenezer started jogging down the road toward the miller's, with Johnnie's old straw hat and his grandmother's sunbonnet bobbing from side to side, and up and down, and backwards and forwards, as the wagon jolted over ruts and stones and thank-you-ma'ams -- which were small ridges built across the road, to turn the water into the ditch when it rained.

The Tale of Sandy Chipmunk Arthur Scott Bailey 1913

"Life" Lane was a jolly good fellow, -- just the man to sit on the box seat and drive the three horses through ruts and "thank-you-ma'ams," slush and mud and snow.

The Village Watch-Tower Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

It is n'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. "

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

It is n'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. "

The Guardian Angel Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851