beg pardon

Meaning

1. Editorial80% of films

   Used to ask someone to repeat or clarify what they just said, because you did not hear or understand it.

2. Oxford20% of films

   to ask sb to forgive you for sth you have said or done

In the movies · 85

• I beg your pardon?My Fellow Americans1996
• - Oh. - I beg your pardon.Cruella2021
• I'm terribly sorry. I beg your pardon.A Shot in the Dark1964
• I do beg pardon.The Golden Compass2007
• Uh, beg... beg pardon?The Bad Guys2022
• I beg pardon, sire.Braveheart1995
• I beg your pardon?The Three Musketeers2011
• Beg your pardonThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.2015

Learn it in full scenes

• My Fellow Americans1996
  • Golf Talk Turns Awkward
  • The Missing Appointment Log
  • Tanner Summons the Presidents
• A Shot in the Dark1964
  • Clouseau Investigates the Pistol Pen
  • Clouseau Interrogates Maria
  • Dreyfus Takes Over the Case

From the same entry

• beg leave to do
• be going begging
• beg the question
• I beg to differ
• I beg your pardon
• beg off

More idioms

• come to mind
• no hard feelings
• make the best of
• be for the best
• as good as
• get a grip
• make day
• make sense of
• the last straw
• be in on
• be on the lookout
• get down to business