excuse-me

noun

1. a dance in which a person may take another's partner

Idioms and Phrases

Also, I beg your pardon, pardon me . Forgive me, as in Excuse me, please let me pass , or Pardon me for asking , or I beg your pardon, I don't think so . These phrases are used as an apology for interrupting a conversation, bumping into someone, asking a speaker to repeat something, politely disagreeing with something said, and so on. The first dates from about 1600, the first variant from about 1800, the second from the mid-1700s.

Also, excuse oneself . Allow or ask to leave or be released from an obligation. For example, Please excuse me, I have to leave now , or I asked the judge to excuse me from jury duty . [1920s]

Example Sentences

After starting Lewis, his first batter, with a wild cutter that sent catcher Will Smith sprawling behind the plate, Henriquez executed a better one on the outside corner to induce an excuse-me swing.

From Los Angeles Times

“And so every 787 comes with presumably, I assume so, a heavy, heavy ‘excuse-me’ check attached to it.”

From Seattle Times

With the bases loaded, Tom Murphy hit an “excuse-me” dribbler to the right side of the pitcher’s mound on a check swing.

From Seattle Times

Open at Pebble Beach, by dropping an excuse-me 50-footer on the par-4 ninth, his final hole of the day.

From Golf Digest

He got Gary Sanchez to ground out with an excuse-me swing, stranding two baserunners in the sixth.

From Reuters