idiomsword-usage
I would like to know how to use the excuse myself/yourself idioms.
Also would be nice to know the possible situation for these sentences.
I know, if I caused any trouble I can say "Excuse me" for it. (I'm sorry because I did something wrong.)
But what about the "excuse myself?"
And yourself?
Any answer will be appreciated:).
It is because you are not counting the thousands, you are counting the trees.
So when you say:
There are seven thousand trees.
The noun trees is countable and plural. thousand is an adjective in this example. Even if you don't say "trees" its still implied.
But you could say:
There are thousands and thousands of trees."
where "thousand" is used as a noun and you are counting groups of 1,000.
I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you.
Translation, chunk by chunk:
[ I shall be ] [ a great deal ] [ too far off ] [ to trouble myself about you. ]
= [ I will be ] [ very ] [ too far away from you ] [ to do anything about you. ]
~ "I will be too very far away from you to do anything about you, my feet."
A great deal is a set phrase, meaning: "a large amount or quantity of something".
Why did Alice say so?
Because she was stretched out, like a telescope (see the image below), by the power of the cake after eating a cake in the previous chapter. (The sentence in question is from the first paragraph of chapter II of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.)
Best Answer
"Excuse myself" would not generally be used on its own. However it may be used to describe a time that you removed yourself from a social situation (a dinner, or a party, for example):
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While the present tense of this would simply be
In the above statement, you are asking the people around you to forgive you for leaving. You are, in essence, apologizing. It's a way of expressing that you enjoy their company. "I am sorry, please forgive me, but I must go."
"excuse myself" is still expressing that you enjoyed the company around you, but you didn't find it necessary to apologize for leaving. Instead of bothering the people around you, for example if they are busy and you don't want to interrupt, you excuse yourself and leave without saying anything.
For 'excuse yourself', this would generally be used to describe the second person example of the same situations.
In some cases it can be used on its own, as a command to someone, for example if someone does something socially impolite, you might say "excuse you!" or "excuse yourself!" For instance if I say something rude, or I burp.
"excusing", as a general verb, describes a very polite or socially acceptable way to remove yourself from a situation.
On the other hand, the noun "excuse", would be a reason for leaving, or having performed some action that requires an explanation.
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