Idiom
thousand pardons
Meaning
A conventionally polite request to be pardoned or excused.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“A thousand pardons, I did not mean to bump into you.”
“I am so sorry for interrupting your meeting; a thousand pardons for the intrusion.”
“He offered a thousand pardons for his uncharacteristic outburst, hoping his sincere apology would restore the peace between them.”
Examples
simple
“A thousand pardons, I did not mean to bump into you.”
contextual
“I am so sorry for interrupting your meeting; a thousand pardons for the intrusion.”
complex
“He offered a thousand pardons for his uncharacteristic outburst, hoping his sincere apology would restore the peace between them.”
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