with apologies to

English

Phrase

with apologies to

  1. A conventional way of attributing credit to somebody whose ideas or works one is adapting or parodying.
    • 2000, Howard Noel, I'm the Other Man in My Own Marriage!, page 122:
      With apologies to Jonathan Swift, May I make a “modest proposal?”
    • 2016, Anthony Hogan, Rebecca Phillips, Hearing Impairment and Hearing Disability, page 5:
      Losing one's hearing suggests carelessness at best (with apologies to Oscar Wilde) and damnation at worst (in the biblical sense).
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