Saturday, 20 December 2008

Find me a word

... which means, a logical sounding explanation for doing something that you would do anyway. Or a phrase.

For example,

"Oh, I always buy the yellow ones," he said, "they're better at catching flies." But actually, he buys them because that's what his mum always bought when he was a kid.

4 comments:

Alexander said...

Question isn't clear. Do you mean a logical sounding explanation for something you would do anyway, but is actually just a habit?

Or just a logical sounding explanation for something you do regularly?

Jamu Kakar said...

quirk?

emmanueloga said...

Rationalization maybe?

Claire :) said...

excuse? fair excuse? valid excuse?
justify
rationalise
validate

I don't think any of thoes are maybe quite right though.