noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ flimsy
▪
Several schools banned the game on flimsy ~s.
▪ false
▪
This was a false ~ to attack another country.
VERB + PRETEXT
▪ give sb , provide (sb with)
▪ find , invent
▪
He considered inventing some ~ for calling her.
PREPOSITION
▪ on a/the ~
▪
He disappeared into his study on the ~ that he had work to do there.
▪ under a/the ~
▪
Under the ~ of checking her identity, the man had copied down her credit card details.
▪ ~ for
▪
He used his research as a ~ for going to Hungary.
PHRASES
▪ at the slightest ~ , on the slightest ~
▪
He keeps popping into my office on the slightest ~.