COULD I GET BY, PLEASE?

Could I get by, please?: translation

Would you please allow me space to pass by? (Also used with

can

or

may

in place of

could

.

May

is almost too polite.) •

Poor Bill, trapped at the back of the elevator behind a huge man, kept saying, “Could I get by, please?”

•

“Can I get by, please?” Jane said, squeezing between passengers on the crowded bus.