I. interjection
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
forgive/excuse/pardon the pun (= used to show you know you are making a pun )
free pardon
pardon/forgive the expression (= used when you have said a word or phrase that might offend someone )
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After the climb, we were absolutely knackered, if you’ll pardon the expression.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I beg your pardon
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"And the year of your birth?" "I beg your pardon?" "When were you born?"
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"East Coast people are kind of uptight, aren't they?" "I beg your pardon!"
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"That's my pen." "Oh, I beg your pardon - I thought it was mine.''
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Oh, I beg your pardon. Are you all right?
pardon/excuse my French
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
expression
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I was, if you will pardon the expression , absolutely buggered.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pardon/excuse my French
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Pardon the mess -- I got home late last night and didn't have time to clean up.
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Ford immediately pardoned Nixon when he became President.
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I am so sorry about that, Mr Judd. Please pardon my daughter for her little outburst.
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I hope you'll pardon the state of the house - I haven't had time to clean it up.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also on Jan. 1 Havel declared an amnesty which involved pardoning certain categories of short-term prisoners and reducing the sentences of others.
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Another 110 were pardoned after their cases were reviewed by a special board.
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Like most of his other supporters, the bishops associated with Mortimer were pardoned.
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Siricus pardoned Fabiola her sins, after her second husband died.
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The king at the request of Eleanor de Percy pardoned him and cancelled his abjuration.
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Though they were pardoned three years later by President Carlos Menem, they are again under house arrest charged with kidnapping children.
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Two defendants were pardoned before trial and one avoided trial because the Bush administration refused to release key documents.
III. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
free
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A free pardon should only be granted if moral as well as technical innocence can be established.
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We gave her a free pardon , though, and she lives there freely, as merry as the rest of us.
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Noah Claypole was given a free pardon for telling the police about Fagin.
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So why was a free pardon not granted?
presidential
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Charges of child kidnapping are not covered by the presidential pardon .
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She has even declared her unwillingness to accept a presidential pardon because it carries an implicit concession of guilt.
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It now appears that Mr Cunningham, her campaign treasurer, also took money to lobby for two presidential pardons .
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All he needs is a presidential pardon to restore his passport.
royal
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He returned briefly to the Commonwealth's service, but retired when the Restoration became inevitable and procured a royal pardon .
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Thomas had received a royal pardon in the previous April, just one week after Barnet, which implies a Neville connection.
■ VERB
ask
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He has rejected all the accusations and said he did not want to ask the president for pardon .
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On more than one occasion she is known to have publicly asked pardon for the scandal she had given.
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In 1182, he asked formally for pardon , prostrating himself before Barbarossa.
beg
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King: I beg thy pardon , Wapping.
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I do beg your pardon , sir.
give
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We gave her a free pardon , though, and she lives there freely, as merry as the rest of us.
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Noah Claypole was given a free pardon for telling the police about Fagin.
grant
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He was granted a partial pardon by President Jacques Chirac in 1996 and was finally released in September 1998.
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The former president has denied granting any pardons or commutations for any reason other than the merits.
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In spite of the negative stand of Carnogursky, Schuster can decide to grant the pardon .
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Prosecutors are trying to determine whether Clinton was bribed to grant the pardon .
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But he has now refused either to grant the long-expected pardon or refer the case back to the Court of Appeal.
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Francis of Assisi wrote: Where there is injury, let me grant pardon .
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After Mortimer's condemnation Edward granted pardon and restitution to the families which had suffered at his hands in 1329 and 1330.
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The mistress, political fundraiser Linda Jones, was granted a pardon , too.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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With the promise of a pardon , Wynn was persuaded to give evidence.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A Justice Department official said there was no record of any formal request by Wynn for a pardon .
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Dole demanded that Clinton rule out pardons for his business partners in the failed Whitewater land scheme.
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It is the right of any convicted felon, great or small, to apply for a pardon .
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Sea battles and voyages and plunder and buried treasure and king's pardons and kidnapped wenches.
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She has even declared her unwillingness to accept a presidential pardon because it carries an implicit concession of guilt.
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So why was a free pardon not granted?
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There was then apparently an offer of pardon to others who submitted willingly to the royal authority without delay.