with apologies to

English

A conventional way of attributing credit to somebody whose ideas or works one is adapting or parodying.
- 2000, Howard Noel, I'm the Other Man in My Own Marriage!, page 122:
  With apologies to Jonathan Swift, May I make a “modest proposal?”
- 2016, Anthony Hogan, Rebecca Phillips, Hearing Impairment and Hearing Disability (page 5)
  Losing one's hearing suggests carelessness at best (with apologies to Oscar Wilde) and damnation at worst (in the biblical sense).