beg off

If he tried to beg off, that would be bad.

"Maybe I should've begged off the case right from the beginning."

They'd asked her if she didn't want to come with them, but she'd begged off.

However he had to beg off due to health reasons.

At first she begged off going to my place, wanted to do it in the back seat of the car.

He had begged off telling her about the plastic under his hair.

She had, indeed, tried to beg off going to London herself.

She had begged off accompanying them herself because of that.

"I asked him to stay to dinner, but he begged off."

He'd been making similar offers for days but Tom had continued to distance himself by begging off each time.

That's why he tried to beg off, but he's afraid of me.

But then he added, 'It's not going to be easy to beg off.

She had her hair done and begged off several outings.

The captain begged off and sat down, saying he was exhausted.

"He wanted me to go along, but I begged off.

I've begged off a few parties over the last several weeks as a result."

Potential investors found all sorts of reasons to beg off.

But the officials said Patriots executives had always begged off.

It is not as if Oakley couldn't have begged off a game or two.

They had begged off, the rumors said, after a long day of public appearances.

They called friends about getting together, but the friends begged off.

He'd been invited to the opening, but begged off, having another engagement.

You won't have some urgent project and beg off at the last moment?"

Surprisingly, the Colonel begged off, saying he wasn't feeling all that well.

I'm only on the bridge tonight because I begged off with a hangover.