forgive my French

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.
   • 1981, Steve Krantz, chapter 30, in Skycastle, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.; London: Collier Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, page 280:

     Devlin, forgive my French, but there’s a big fucking conspiracy against you. You’re too young, too pretty, and . . .

   • 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:

     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).

   • 2021, Gabrielle Bluestone, “Fyre in the Hole”, in Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, Con Artists and Infleuncers Are Taking Over the Internet – and Why We’re Following, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 251:

     “The people in the Exumas, where they wanted to host this, they don’t want people there. I mean, Johnny Depp’s our neighbor, okay?” he said. “There’s a reason, forgive my French, but there’s a reason he calls his island Fuck You Island.”