Excuse
Write off
Write off verb - To express scornfully one's low opinion of.
Both terms in one sentence
- Synopsis: When Fluttershy received her certification as a fog specialist, she only wanted a plausible excuse to write off the expenses associated with her ground-based house on her taxes.
- Quit Your Whining: Celestia calls out TD for his bad attitude over being trapped, pointing out she's also had to deal with being the only one of her kind.TD: Well excuse me for not adapting to things like some emotionless thing a bad fanfic author would write off.
Source: Fanfic / The Non-Bronyverse - Unlike Gwen and Stitches they're never given a Freudian Excuse or likable quirk, and they seem to be fairly popular in school, which would write off being kindred spirits to Gwen as motivation.
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