Could I get by, please?

Could I get by, please?
Could I get by, please?
Would you please allow me space to pass by? (Also used with

can

or

may

in place of

could

.

May

is almost too polite.) •

Poor Bill, trapped at the back of the elevator behind a huge man, kept saying, “Could I get by, please?”

“Can I get by, please?” Jane said, squeezing between passengers on the crowded bus.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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