It was an older woman named Dame somthing... I didn't care for the type of humour myself anyway but that phrase stuck in my mind...


>>Isn't it an English woman that is always saying: "Excuse I?"
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>No idea. Maybe some ignoramus in a sit-com. Some do it for "comical" effect. There was a comedy duo doing it in sketches a few years ago, pushing their way through a crowd "'Scuse I, Pardon I". I think the effect was that here are people you wanna kill :-)
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>>>>How about one that appears in the news all too often:
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>>>>Anonymous source
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>>>Or "a reliable informant", but then again they don't bother me. How else would you say that without the cliche?