dog ate it
Classic assignment alibi
A joking excuse for missing homework or other obligations, from the cliché of a student claiming their dog destroyed an assignment.
The phrase now serves as shorthand for any transparently flimsy or unverifiable explanation: Where's the report? Let me guess—the dog ate it.
Sometimes used self-deprecatingly when offering a weak excuse.
- homeworkStudent assignments for outside class
- excuseOffered reason for wrongdoing
- chewedCrushed with teeth
- shreddedTorn into strips
- paperPressed pulp for writing
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- homework strugglesexcuse making, homework load, late night cramming
- Russian sayingsbread and salt, avos, Potemkin village, iron curtain