Women have great influence on their male partners/husbands and can have anything done for them.

(euphemistic) To die without protest.

Used to indicate that the response is probably no, but that the speaker is not entirely certain.

plural of thank-you-ma'am

A ridge or hollow across a road.

Alternative form of truth is stranger than fiction

Sometimes actual events are stranger than imagined ones.

To make a situation worse, usually while trying to make it better.

If that is the way things are, if that's the case.

(idiomatic) Those who are too different or conspicuous get criticized or sanctioned by others.