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English
Etymology
From the use of French to mean “vulgar language”, ostensibly because the words used are not in English.
Pronunciation
Verb
pardon my French (third-person singular simple present pardons my French, present participle pardoning my French, simple past and past participle pardoned my French)
- (intransitive, idiomatic, often humorous) To excuse the speaker's frankness of expression or profanity.
- Synonyms: excuse my français, excuse my French, pardon mon français, pardon my français, pardonnez my French
That computer is a worthless piece of shit, if you’ll pardon my French.
2018 July 16, “Check”, in The Vault, performed by Kash Doll [pseudonym; Arkeisha Antoinette Knight]:Look, now it's the dolly, not Parton / But pardon my French / Give no fucks about no nigga / Give no fucks about no bitch
Translations
to excuse the speaker’s frankness of expression or profanity
- Arabic: لَا تُؤَاخِذْنِي (lā tuʔāḵiḏnī), أَسْتَمِيحُكَ عُذْرًا (ʔastamīḥuka ʕuḏran), اُعْذُرْنِي (uʕḏurnī)
- Danish: undskyld mit franske, undskyld sproget
- Finnish: anteeksi kielenkäyttöni
- French: passez-moi l’expression
- German: auf Deutsch gesagt (also common but less apologetic); auf gut Deutsch (de) (literally “in good German”); entschuldigen Sie meine Ausdrucksweise; mit Verlaub (de); verzeihen Sie den Ausdruck; wenn Sie den Ausdruck erlauben; wenn ich offen sprechen darf
- Greek: συγγνώμη για τα γαλλικά μου! (syngnómi gia ta galliká mou!)
- Hungarian: bocsásson meg a világ (usually sarcastic), ha szabad így kifejeznem magam, ha szabad így mondanom, már bocsánat, már elnézést
- Italian: scusate il francesismo, con rispetto parlando, mi si passi l'espressione (formal)
- Japanese: 下品な言い方で恐縮だけど… (gehin na iikata de kyōshuku da kedo …)
- Macedonian: изви́нете за мо́ето изразу́вање (izvínete za móeto izrazúvanje), изви́нете за и́зразот (izvínete za ízrazot)
- Norwegian: unnskyld språket mitt
- Polish: za przeproszeniem (pl)
- Portuguese: com o perdão da palavra (literally “with the apology of the word”)
- Romanian: scuză-mi limbajul, scuzați-mi limbajul
- Russian: извини́те за мо́й францу́зский (izviníte za mój francúzskij), извини́те за выраже́ние (izviníte za vyražénije)
- Sicilian: scusannu a palora, scusannu u francisìsimu
- Spanish: perdona mis garabatos, perdona mi francés
- Swedish: ursäkta språket
- Ukrainian: вибачте за мою французьку (vybačte za moju francuzʹku)
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See also
Further reading
pardon my French on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “pardon my French, pardon (also excuse) my French.” under “French, adj. and n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2022.
- “pardon my French, phrase”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.