"excuse" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

excuse sustantivo

excuse + verbo
Kolokacji: 3
excuse says • excuse sounds • excuse makes
verbo + excuse
Kolokacji: 13
make excuses • find an excuse • give an excuse • offer an excuse • use the excuse • ...
adjetivo + excuse
Kolokacji: 61
good excuse • perfect excuse • poor excuse • only excuse • lame excuse • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 16
(4) only, easy, ready
Kolokacji: 3
(6) convenient, handy, suitable
Kolokacji: 3
(8) plausible, convincing, glib
Kolokacji: 3
(12) mere, elaborate
Kolokacji: 2
(13) ready-made, tired
Kolokacji: 2
1. ready-made excuse = usprawiedliwienie gotowego ubrania ready-made excuse
  • Look on the bright side - a new book may offer a ready-made excuse.
  • But now the woman had just presented him with what seemed like a ready-made excuse.
  • Five years ago Internacional had a ready-made excuse.
  • The ready-made excuse is that he's dealing with taboos, making fun of prejudice, not endorsing it.
  • A ready-made excuse and a natural protection.
  • And starting in a few days, Barneys will provide a ready-made excuse to stop by: its famous holiday windows will be installed.
  • In any case, he had a ready-made excuse to part company with Cashel, all at once and in a hurry.
  • For the World Cup, they have a ready-made excuse if it all goes badly wrong.
  • His mind was already spinning out ready-made excuses for him to drink.
  • Considering their economic state and the ready-made excuse for lowering salaries, the idea goes, the owners don't need an artificial salary inhibitor.
2. tired excuse = oklepane usprawiedliwienie tired excuse
(14) phony, trumped-up
Kolokacji: 2
(15) welcome, favorite
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + excuse
Kolokacji: 7
of excuses • for an excuse • without excuse • with an excuse • to excuses • ...

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