excuse/pardon my French!
old-fashioned humoroussaid when you are pretending to be sorry for using a word that may be considered offensive:
Pardon my French, but that's a damned shame!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making & accepting apologies
- absolution
- afraid
- atonement
- conciliate
- cut
- excuse
- forge
- if you'll pardon the expression idiom
- make it up to sb idiom
- mend
- mend your fences idiom
- my bad idiom
- overlook
- pardon (me) idiom
- recompense
- reconcile
- reconciliation
- repentant
- take sb back
- unrepentant
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