formulae Some people say `no offence' to make it clear that they do not want to upset you, although what they are saying may seem rather rude. Dad, you need a bath. No offence
What you never can be sure of whether the other person has taken or not when you tell that joke about the three Nuns and the flasher
{i} attack; (Sports) side that pursues (rather than defends); misdeed; insult; state of being offended; transgression (also offense)
If someone takes offence at something you say or do, they feel upset, often unnecessarily, because they think you are being rude to them. She never takes offence at anything Never had she seen him so tense, so quick to take offence as he had been in recent weeks