you should excuse the expression

Please forgive what I just said or am about to say. This polite disclaimer for uttering a profanity, obscenity, or vulgarity was adopted from Yiddish about 1930 and became common soon thereafter. See also pardon my French.

See also: excuse, expression, should

The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer

See also:

errors and omissions excepted
except
mazulla
mazuma
you can't dance at two weddings at once
you can't dance at two weddings at the same time
shickered
shikkered
shlimazel
you can't sit in two chairs at once

References in periodicals archive

Then they are, you should excuse the expression, fools.

The treason of the clerks: church leaders and Catholic educators are killing Catholic schools

But without developed characters and a plot, act two provides merely more of what we saw in act one, suggesting that the play is too long and that it was written by, you should excuse the expression, a committee.

Un-American

There was no getting around it: The story was, you should excuse the expression, "out there."

Slouching Toward Sanity

(For the record, none of my research was ever funded by Catholic schools, and I have never taught in Catholic schools save for an eighth-grade catechism class when I was a very young priest back in, you should excuse the expression, the "sleepy" 1950s.) I am unaware that anyone has found any major substantive or methodological errors in my work.

The so-called failure of Catholic schools

But we're not even there yet, and we won't get closer unless we keep doing the R&D at a thousand sites to see what does and doesn't (you should excuse the expression) click with readers.

NEW(S) MEDIA A journey to paradise finds there's no place like newsprint

词组	you should excuse the expression
释义	you should excuse the expression you should excuse the expression Please forgive what I just said or am about to say. This polite disclaimer for uttering a profanity, obscenity, or vulgarity was adopted from Yiddish about 1930 and became common soon thereafter. See also pardon my French. See also: excuse, expression, should The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: errors and omissions excepted except mazulla mazuma you can't dance at two weddings at once you can't dance at two weddings at the same time shickered shikkered shlimazel you can't sit in two chairs at once References in periodicals archive Then they are, you should excuse the expression, fools. The treason of the clerks: church leaders and Catholic educators are killing Catholic schools But without developed characters and a plot, act two provides merely more of what we saw in act one, suggesting that the play is too long and that it was written by, you should excuse the expression, a committee. Un-American There was no getting around it: The story was, you should excuse the expression, "out there." Slouching Toward Sanity (For the record, none of my research was ever funded by Catholic schools, and I have never taught in Catholic schools save for an eighth-grade catechism class when I was a very young priest back in, you should excuse the expression, the "sleepy" 1950s.) I am unaware that anyone has found any major substantive or methodological errors in my work. The so-called failure of Catholic schools But we're not even there yet, and we won't get closer unless we keep doing the R&D at a thousand sites to see what does and doesn't (you should excuse the expression) click with readers. NEW(S) MEDIA A journey to paradise finds there's no place like newsprint
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