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good manners and politeness is in the UK always using please and thank you is vital if you want to have good manners but on occasion we all uh sorry pardon my French idiom numbe...
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good manners and politeness is in the UK always using please and thank you is vital if you want to have good manners but on occasion we all uh sorry pardon my French idiom numbe...
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important
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good manners and politeness is in the UK
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always using please and thank you is
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vital if you want to have good manners
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but on occasion we
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all uh sorry pardon my French idiom
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number one is very commonly used when
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English people swear now if you are
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French I hope you're not offended by
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this idiomatic expression it really is a
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joke it's apologizing for using a swear
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word bad language cursing if you will
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and basically it's suggesting that you
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didn't swear but you used a foreign word
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and France being the closest neighbor to
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England has become part of the joke so
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when you say a bad word when you swear
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by accident in front of someone that you
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shouldn't and you want to apologize we
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often very often say pardon my French or
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excuse my French so you realize that you
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shouldn't have used that language and
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you're apologizing for it in a joking
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kind of way so hopefully you guys don't
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swear and won't need to use this idiom
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but if you
good manners and politeness is in the UK always using please and thank you is vital if you want to have good manners but on occasion we all uh sorry pardon my French idiom numbe...
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