excuse me vs how's that

excuse me

phrase
  • Said as a request to repeat information. 

  • Said as an expression of unexpected or early farewell. 

  • Said as a request for an individual's attention. 

  • Said as a request to pass somebody. 

  • Sorry, as an apology. 

  • Said, as though as a request to repeat information, in order to indicate disbelief or indignation. 

noun
  • An old-fashioned type of dance where partners are constantly changed. 

how's that

phrase
  • Used to ask someone to repeat something 

  • Used to make an appeal to the umpire as to whether the batsman is out or not 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see how, is, that. 

How often have the words excuse me and how's that occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )