no excuse
Take your medicine
No excuse dismisses any possible justification for a failure or wrongdoing.
There's no excuse for being late to your own wedding.
The phrase often appears as no excuse for, condemning behavior as indefensible.
It can also acknowledge fault while rejecting mitigation: I know it's no excuse, but I was exhausted.
- unacceptableNot meeting required standards
- unjustifiableCannot be reasonably defended
- accountabilityObligation for one's actions
- blameAssign responsibility for wrongdoing
- responsibilityState of being answerable
bad behavior · poor judgment · take responsibility · own up · lazy · guilty · apology · deflection · pass the buck · consequences · own · buck stops here · hold accountable · fault · weakness · failure · dropped the ball · unforgivable
no excusejustification
Reason proving rightness
extenuating circumstances · good reason · mitigating circumstances · mitigating factors · understandable
no excusefree pass
Exemption from consequences
get out of jail free · carte blanche · blanket pardon · off the hook · pass
no excusefree pass
Exemption from consequences
off the hook · absolved · exonerated · blameless · innocent
excuse, excuses, excused, excusing, excusable, inexcusable, inexcusably, excusably