explain something away

And if anyone did see him, it would be simple enough to explain away, after all.

Our next stop was the capital, and they would be a little too much to explain away.

Which would be one hell of a difficult thing to explain away.

Something we should be proud of rather than try to explain away.

Things like that are hard to explain away during a job interview.

Defense lawyers say that will be a very difficult piece of evidence to explain away.

In 2010 was not explained away by problems, returned to base.

The damage was explained away with the staff not being paid.

You might think that the question can be explained away by the effect of distance - not so.

And we can't admit it has to be explained away.