pardonnez my French

English

Etymology

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

Verb

pardonnez my French

1. Synonym of pardon my French
   • 1991, Edward Stewart, “Fifty”, in Deadly Rich, Delacorte Press, page 367:

     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?

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

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

   • 1999 August 6, hz37, “system array losing its values”, in bit.listserv.toolb-l (Usenet):

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

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

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

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

     ‘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.’

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

     >>>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?