pardonnez my French

verb

Synonym of pardon my French.

Meanings

verb
  1. Synonym of pardon my French.

    Pardonnez my french, but that doesn't sound too logical to me.

    1999 August 6, hz37, “system array losing its values”, in bit.listserv.toolb-l (Usenet)
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    A certain real-estate-and-media mogul is taking very long lunch hours looking at posh pied-à-terres or, pardonnez my French, do I mean pieds-à-terre?

    1991, Edward Stewart, “Fifty”, in Deadly Rich, Delacorte Press, page 367

    Getting fucked, pardonnez my French, she had the eyes of a fish.

    1999, Chris Petit, Back from the Dead, Alfred A. Knopf, published 2001, →ISBN, page 89

    Pardonnez my french, but Behind the Wheel wasn't an invitation to sell cars in a DM-ng, let alone a conformist Volvo.

    2003 July 4, Dentaku, “vends RIO 700 FISH peche promenade”, in alt.fan.depeche-mode (Usenet)

    ‘All I ever caught was malaria and yellow fever digging that son-of-a-bitching Panama Canal and the syph, the drips and a bad case o’ crabs from the fucking prossies in fucking gay Paree during the big war, pardonnez my French, girlie.’

    2004, Christopher Hyde, The House of Special Purpose, Onyx, →ISBN, page 255

    >>>Pope Benedict Condemns Abortion as Murder in New Interview / > / >> What's the news? / > / >And, who gives a damn what that noxious old Nazi has to say? / Oh. Entschuldigen Sie meine Deutsch ('pardonnez my French') but did it (=Panzerpope) say something?

    2006 August 22, Jos Flachs, “Pope Benedict Condemns Abortion As Murder In New Interview”, in alt.atheism (Usenet)

    Synonyms: pardon my French

Synonyms & antonyms

verbSynonym of pardon my French.

Origin

Blend of pardon my French + French pardonnez (second-person plural or polite singular imperative of pardonner (“to pardon”)).

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