thousand pardons

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thousand pardons

  1. A conventionally polite request to be pardoned or excused.
    • 1900, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age, page 110:
      His figure was bent in apologetic protest. "I ask a thousand pardons, sir," he said; "I am really so very absent-minded."
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