Pardon my French

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use this idiom

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but if you do in front of your teacher

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in front of someone's Parents try not to

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do it in front of children then you can

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say pardon my French excuse my French

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idiomatic expression number two and I

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would say that I hear this less

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frequently it's probably an older

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idiomatic expression and it is to Bow

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and scrape now in this case

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bowing like this scraping I suppose is

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showing that you are showing lots of

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respect and bowing very deeply because

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to scrape is is this action it's to

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touch the floor and and or an object and

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go right to the bottom it's very

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difficult to explain scrape it's it's

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going right to the bottom so when you're

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talking about bowing and scraping it

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means people are being excessively

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polite and Careful With Their Manners

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too much really that perhaps it doesn't

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seem genuine in or over the top more

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than it needs to be so for example when

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the boss arrived there was a lot of

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bowing and scraping people were

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excessively polite too much number three

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is a nice simple idiomatic expression to

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say something