forgive my French

Verb

forgive my French (third-person singular simple present forgives my French, present participle forgiving my French, simple past forgave my French, past participle forgiven my French)

1. Synonym of pardon my French.
   • Devlin, forgive my French, but there’s a big fucking conspiracy against you. You’re too young, too pretty, and . . .1981, Steve Krantz, chapter 30, in Skycastle, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.; London: Collier Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, page 280
   • Were the scent of people worked up love-wise (forgive my French, Miss Prissy—but if you lived out in you own quarter with all that matrimony in one room, you’d of smelled it, too).1989, Allan Gurganus, “Below”, in Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, book 4 (These Things Happen), section 2, page 577

   Synonyms:

   pardon my French