"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
1. possible excuse = możliwe usprawiedliwienie possible excuse
2. old excuse = stare usprawiedliwienie old excuse
  • So don't come on with the old excuse of whining about your rights.
  • I thought we'd exhausted that tired old excuse a long time ago.
  • You've heard the old excuse before: Healthy eating is expensive.
  • This is just the same tired old excuses dragged out again.
  • They could have used the old excuse of we have no plans which leaves the door open.
  • Instead he had the oldest excuse of being too busy to worry.
  • Often coming up with the same old tired excuses that 'I'm not interested in what people had for breakfast'.
  • That old excuse leads to a breakdown of the moral order.
  • It was the oldest excuse in the world, but at this point she didn't care.
  • There was always that old excuse for not working out: you couldn't find the time.
3. built-in excuse = wbudowane usprawiedliwienie built-in excuse
4. real excuse = rzeczywiste usprawiedliwienie real excuse
(12) mere, elaborate
Kolokacji: 2
(13) ready-made, tired
Kolokacji: 2
(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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