When the time comes, he should willingly retire in lieu of some phony excuse.

One such arbitrary and phony excuse is that the subjects and activities of the non-Christian clubs correspond to the school's curriculum.

It will help to sweep aside the phony excuses.

Two more fights sounded like a phony excuse.

It's a phony excuse to alibi the pay-off made to Milton by your father for his split in the freight car robbery.

Reilly, in turn, said that the incumbent congressman was "full of phony excuses" and "afraid of the voters".

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

So he concocted a few phony excuses, quit and ran out.

"How many other girls have you tempted up here using the same phony excuse?"

Actually he had, but he didn't want his brother dropping by unexpectedly with some phony excuse.