Nice excuse, but no reward.

很好的借口，却得不到回报。

youdao

You know, so it's nice to kind of have an excuse to go, do all sorts of things.

所以找个借口就去了，干了很多事儿。

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We had been ripe for a pull in for the last few weeks after a steep uptrend into the meat of earnings season, and the combination of factors were a nice excuse to take us for a little dip.

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