'It's a cheap excuse, and I can't bear it.'

"It's a cheap excuse for cruelty."

That leaves us with a good collection of clips, but since we can already watch them in their original episodes, why bother with this cheap excuse for product?

"Cynicism is a cheap, phony excuse for inaction," the President said to cheers and whistles.

"Oh, now, that's a cheap excuse to stay down here in this sub with all these great-looking men."

This 'spellcasting' thing is a cheap excuse.

"That's not a cheap excuse," he said.

It was not a cheap excuse when he asserted that he was acting in the interest and for the welfare of all mankind.

The fringes of this pattern flourished as cheap excuses.

If I excuse myself on such flimsy, rotten grounds, then I am a liar or a cowardly fraud and a maker of cheap, normal excuses.