1.   Before that, baseball was, you should excuse the expression, a pale imitation of national.

2.   I lean toward becoming an elegant uptown ghost with a goatee and an irresistible je ne sais quoi for the ladies, if women will excuse the expression.

3.   Is it because we sent Jim Everett fleeing to -- excuse the expression -- the hapless Saints?

4.   Maybe all this soft talk will, you should excuse the expression, spur San Antonio to greater effort.

5.   The answer is, you should excuse the expression, in the future.

6.   The historical universe shows the wall is hit, hard, when no connection is drawn between trade or technology universes and the moral universe, excuse the expression.

7.   The real problem was that conservative voters were nervous that she was not afraid to, excuse the expression, think like a man.