"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
2. tired excuse = oklepane usprawiedliwienie tired excuse
  • That is such a tired old excuse that I hesitate to even address it again.
  • The tired excuse that "China has to do it, too" rings false, since we create far more heat-trapping gases per capita than any other country on the planet.
  • I thought we'd exhausted that tired old excuse a long time ago.
  • Here are five common - and, we must admit - tired excuses for waiting to buy a hybrid.
  • Once it ended, the Knicks began to hand out tired excuses like pamphlets on a street corner.
  • "Still falling back on that tired excuse, Q?"
  • This is just the same tired old excuses dragged out again.
  • And the conquest of, and laughter at, illness is an awfully tired excuse for an evening of personal revelation.
  • Often coming up with the same old tired excuses that 'I'm not interested in what people had for breakfast'.
  • They no longer accept Mugabe's tired excuse that Zimbabwe's problems came from outside.
(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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