"You already told me you aren't going out with the good doctor, and that's your favorite excuse."

A favorite excuse for everything that went wrong was, "Oh, you know how the mails are these days."

During races, Landis cataloged riders and their favorite excuses.

Schroyer and the other group leaders stress that when the violence does erupt, contrary to a batterer's favorite excuse, he has not lost control.

Another favorite excuse was an incompetent co-worker he couldn't bear to be around.

Family," I told them, "call me chicken, to use Zeb's favorite excuse.

America's favorite excuse may be: "A healthy life isn't really any longer.

When confronted with evidence of errors or bias, Wikipedians invoke a favorite excuse: look how often the mainstream media, and the traditional encyclopedia, are wrong!

Some favorite excuses: computer failure, leaving a paper at home and the death of a grandmother.

It was Weber's favorite excuse.