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.