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.