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Idiom

thanks a bunch

Meaning

A mildly sarcastic thank you.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“You broke my favorite mug, thanks a bunch.”

“He arrived an hour late to the meeting and expected me to wait, so I told him, thanks a bunch.”

“After she accidentally deleted the entire project file I had spent weeks perfecting, I could only offer a cold, thanks a bunch.”

Examples

simple

“You broke my favorite mug, thanks a bunch.”

contextual

“He arrived an hour late to the meeting and expected me to wait, so I told him, thanks a bunch.”

complex

“After she accidentally deleted the entire project file I had spent weeks perfecting, I could only offer a cold, thanks a bunch.”

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