Excuse Phrases

Phrases

• Ain't no reason to go anyplace else (Wendy's advertising slogan)
• Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• Be excused
• Beg off
• Bow to reason
• Cast iron alibi
• Cry off
• Excuse me (A catchphrase from Steve Martin)
• Excuse me for breathing
• Explain away
• Extenuating circumstances

• Forgive and forget
• Forgive them for they know not what they do
• I was only obeying orders
• It stands to reason
• It's not a bug, it's a feature
• Listen to reason
• Man flu
• Mitigating circumstances
• No earthly reason
• No ifs or buts
• Pardon my French

• Rhyme nor reason
• The Age Of Reason (Jean Paul Sartre book)
• The Age of Reason
• The dog ate my homework
• The ends justify the means
• There's no excuse
• To err is human; to forgive, divine (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• Voice of reason
• Within reason