Will you excuse us, please?

Will you excuse us, please?
Could you excuse us, please? & Can you excuse us, please? & Would you excuse us, please? & Will you excuse us, please?
We must leave. I hope you will forgive us. (A polite way of announcing a departure.) •

Bill: Could you excuse us, please? We simply must rush off. Alice: So sorry you have to go. Come back when you can stay longer.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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