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Forgive the expression, but we'll leave no story before its time."

"If she'll forgive the expression, our cat seems to have arrived!"

After all, their competitors were mostly - forgive the expression - dogs.

That would be one of the many possible - if you will forgive the expression - hypocritical approaches to the issue.

Scientists are dying like dogs, if you'll forgive the expression."

Albert didn't mind working the (you should forgive the expression) graveyard shift.

Or, for that matter, how many well-to-do young ladies passed me by, and vanished from under my nose, if you'll forgive the expression.

Believers in the efficacy of show-business transfusions can - forgive the expression - take heart.

"Born This Way" tops the Hot 100 for the fourth straight (you should forgive the expression) week.

Prime Minister Rasmussen told the applicant countries what was what, if you will forgive the expression, but in a way they could accept.

I can well see why some clots hate it, but I belong to the opposite camp-if you will forgive the expression."

Rather, Jeff Byles has written - forgive the expression - a riveting "cultural history of destruction."

Actually, I pictured you as some kind of computerized . . . prick, if you'll forgive the expression.

"So now I use Old Sparky here to recharge - please forgive the expression - my connection with the current.

Oh for Christ's sake (if you'll forgive the expression), just for once get yur head up out of the trough, will you?

"A plan that, if you forgive the expression, I have named 'Last Ditch. '

Mr. Haig, it really is a matter of taste and, if you forgive the expression, the moral responsibility of American business.

Mr. Powers is the "graffiti artist," you should forgive the expression, whose Sullivan Street apartment was raided by six police officers last week.

This legislative text has had - please forgive the expression - a difficult gestation period, mainly because attitudes still need to change a good deal in this area.

Throughout those long months of sound and fury - if you will forgive the expression - the Belgian Presidency held firm to the course of European politics.

Madam President, if you will forgive the expression, Mrs Lulling's report is definitely 'the bee's knees' and we should be giving it all our support.

In my own defence I can say only that I went along for the ride, as it were, if you'll forgive the expression, Mr Milton.'