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Phrase(s): sorry about that [and] sorry ’bout that sorry; whoops. (A gross understatement, said more as a self-deprecating joke than as an apology.) • You spill hot cocoa on my coat, and all you can say is "Sorry ’bout that"? • When the passenger stepped on my toe, she said, "Sorry about that."
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs