flimsy excuse

collocation in English

meaningsofflimsyandexcuse

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flimsy
adjective
uk
/ˈflɪm.zi/us
/ˈflɪm.zi/
very thin, or easily broken ...
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excuse
noun[C]
uk
/ɪkˈskjuːs/us
/ɪkˈskjuːs/
a reason that you give to explain why you did ...
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(Definition offlimsyandexcusefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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That is not so terrible in itself and it is aflimsyexcusefor hurting many thousands with less than that.
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I find this aflimsyexcusefor what is admittedly an appalling performance by the private steel industry in the capital sector.
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It is going to let in children on someflimsyexcuse.
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What a torrent of scornful invective we should have had and how thisflimsyexcusewould have been torn up!
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We have been given aflimsyexcusefor this ceremony, but who is to get the benefit of it?
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I think he was particularly unfair to attempt to dismiss as aflimsyexcusesuch a very good reason.
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I could not imagine a moreflimsyexcuseor more serious and terrible threat than that.
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I consider this to be a mostflimsyexcuse.
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Is not this aflimsyexcuse?
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His resignation was accepted by the managers, but refused by the local education authority on the veryflimsyexcusethat he wanted to leave at a month's notice.
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Was there ever a moreflimsyexcuse?
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Let us look at thatflimsyexcuse.
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The teacher training colleges – for which we have given money – are not being established, with theflimsyexcusethat the region is unable to set up any accounts.
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I have never heard so many flimsy excuses for the loss of £60 million of the taxpayers' money.
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These seem to me excessively flimsy excuses.
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