excuse my français

See also: excuse my Francais and excuse my francais

English

Alternative forms

• excuse my Francais
• excuse my francais

Etymology

Blend of excuse my French +‎ French français (“French”).

Verb

excuse my français

1. Synonym of pardon my French
   • 1993 September 9, Mark 'Mark' Sachs, “Jurassic Park movie ; does it "suck" ?”, in comp.sys.amiga.advocacy (Usenet):

     The more we fuck with the ECOSYSTEM (excuse my Francais) the worse these "freak catastrophes" are when they DO happen.IE, the flood.

   • 1996 October 21, Daniel Smith, “First Contact - ET”, in rec.arts.startrek.tech (Usenet):

     Ahhh, the ultimate paradox of time travel. Excuse my français, but isn't the space-time continuium a bitch?

   • 1997 May 21, James Roots, “Dancin' Fools”, in alt.movies.silent (Usenet):

     The man was one goddamn helluva dancer, excuse my francais.

   • 1998 May 21, Zeke, “Thanks! Oh and one more thing...”, in alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions (Usenet):

     Since I have a shitty (excuse my Francais) winmodem I'm using win95 to download stuff for the timebeing.

   • 1999 February 19, John Higdon, “Wal Mart Is Listening!!! No DIVX @ Wally World!”, in rec.video.dvd.misc (Usenet):

     What a load of crap (excuse my Francais).

   • 1999 June 25, starladear, “D'Arcy is in the Catfight of the Stars!”, in alt.music.smash-pumpkins (Usenet):

     I think, however, after all the wrong Courtney has done to the Pumpkins/Billy and a lot of other people, D'Arcy would have no trouble taking that bitch(excuse my francais :) down.

   • 2000 January 22, Evan D Ravitz, “The 4 Fs of Clinton politics (blue language)”, in boulder.general (Usenet):

     Excuse my Francais, but the way Clinton treats citizens reminds me of what pimply adolescent boys "learn" from each other about how they're "supposed" to treat women: / Find 'em. / Feel their pain. (Feel 'em in the original version) / Fuck 'em. / Forget 'em.

   • 2000 May 5, Tristán White, “I LOVE YOU is it as bad as all that?”, in uk.local.london (Usenet):

     Since we have a magazine here, which is due out next week, and I have not been doing back-up this week as the ARCServe software is too old for the ultranew tape-back-up-drive, and I can't do a manual back-up until everyone's gone and since there's so much footie this week I have not been the last one here, so no manual NT4 back-up done this week, well it's a bit of a fuck-up if you excuse my français....

   • 2003, Thomas Hoover, Syndrome, Smashwords, →ISBN:

     After all those years when he didn't give a shit— excuse my Francais.

   • 2005, Jeffrey Miller, “I Say Banana, You Say Tomato”, in Murder’s Out of Tune (Amicus Curiae Mystery), ECW Press, →ISBN, section A (’Til Death Us Do Part), page 35:

     The White Elephant of Jazz. Hell, biggest of any colour, never mind he’s no Duke Ellington. But he was on the hit parade and all that, in the sixties, anyhow, and he was a good draw for the club scene. And not just jazz clubs. Yeah, a guy like that, a certain number of folks, a goodly number of ’em, I’d say, they think he’s a prick, like, see what I’m sayin’? Mm-hmm, and excuse my français, the language of my ancestors. Billy had that reputation, but it goes with the turf, dig.

   • 2008 January 16, Bryant Bryn, “Re: (META) Chadlas shrugged.”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

     Ridiculously useless posters like Bob Barnett or Greaseball Mottola could disappear and nobody'd blink, but if Chad ever departs for good this group is fucked. / Excuse my Français.