Idiom
pardon me
Meaning
Sorry; said as an apology.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Pardon me, is this seat taken?”
“Pardon me, I did not mean to bump into you while I was rushing to catch the train.”
“Pardon me for interrupting your conversation, but I believe you dropped this important document on the floor.”
Examples
simple
“Pardon me, is this seat taken?”
contextual
“Pardon me, I did not mean to bump into you while I was rushing to catch the train.”
complex
“Pardon me for interrupting your conversation, but I believe you dropped this important document on the floor.”
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