Meaning of pardonnez mon français | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of pardon my French.

humorous

Examples

“Out on the street, the bald guy, you know, Julie’s, pulls out these car keys and heads straight for this pink Buick Electra convertible! They could just die, and the little runt is grinning like a shiteater, pardonnez mon français.”

“Pardonnez mon francais, mais why the fuck did God distribute these "possessions" of ours so unevenly?”

“I always thought it was "tabernacle" and, for emphasis "chalice du tabernacle." (pardonnez mon Français, SVP) I was always amused how the expression would shock les vieilles femmes de Caraquet where I spent the summers in my youth but these same women used four letter English expletives without a seconds' thought.”

“Clearly Saddam wants to push things up until the eleventh hour, and is seriously testing his limits. Therein lies his unwillingness to cooperate, and his potential for further wrongdoing. Therefore, one way or another, that fucker has got to go, pardonnez mon Francais.”

““Can you imagine me buying something off someone?” he [Eddie Irvine] asks. “What is the point? I was in Paris the other week and I met this guy who was doing cocaine, out of his hand. I’m thinking: Get a f**king life!” Pardonnez mon francais, but Eddie Irvine has a f***ing life all right. Apart from the Ferraris, the helicopter, the private jet and the millions in the bank, he has two houses in Dalkey (“I love Dalkey — it’s one of the most special places in the world”), an apartment in New York he has slept in four nights in as many years, homes in Miami, St-Tropez, Macau and Milan, and a floating shag-palace called Anaconda which he keeps moored in the bay off Portofino.”

“His zeal for sports and for following them on TV, and his excessive taste for long celebrations and orgiastic festivities were also wearing thin on some of his lieutenants, those frontline soldiers who had gone through, pardonnez mon français, hell and back, jumping up and down and leading strangers astray and murdering and chopping them and then eating them along with pals.”

“I think the second part is that I receive and believe messages that I'm a bad person. This is (pardonnez mon français) bullshit, and maybe I'm not just speaking about my own problems here, but maybe someone can relate, and realize that they're also being handed a steaming load of emotional crap.”

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