"thousand pardons" meaning in English

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Phrase

Head templates: {{head|en|idiom}} thousand pardons
  1. A conventionally polite request to be pardoned or excused. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-thousand_pardons-en-phrase-n9QRbP56 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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