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pardon my french

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  1. pardon my Frenchverb

    Please excuse my swearing or bad language.

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  1. Pardon my French

    "Pardon my French" or "Excuse my French" is a common English language phrase ostensibly disguising profanity as words from the French language. The phrase is uttered in an attempt to excuse the user of profanity, swearing, or curses in the presence of those offended by it, under the pretense of the words being part of a foreign language. Also derived from the attempt to disguise the French term for "the seal"-"le phoque"

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  1. Pardon my French

    "Pardon my French" or "Excuse my French" is a common English language phrase ostensibly disguising profanity as French. The phrase is uttered in an attempt to excuse the user of profanity or curses in the presence of those offended by it under the pretense of the words being part of a foreign language. The phrase has found large use in broadcast television and family films where less offensive words are preceded by "pardon my French" to emphasize their meaning without violating censorship or rating guidelines. A good example is in the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Cameron calls Mr. Rooney and says, "Pardon my French, but you're an asshole." In another segment, Bueller says, "Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you were to shove a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond."

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pardon my french in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pardon my french in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of pardon my french in a Sentence

  1. Harleen Singh:

    When we talk about racism and stereotypes, it's not just the ability or the freedom to vote and to become doctors and have degrees and do successful things, it's also to just be human beings who have errors, who have wants, who are contradictory. Pardon my French, but to f *** up as much as anybody else.


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  • Verzeihung, mein FranzosischGerman
  • क्षमा करना मेरे फ़्रांसवासीHindi
  • elnézést a franciámértHungarian
  • Unnskyld franskmennene mineNorwegian
  • 抱歉我法语不好Chinese

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