#vocabulary ON THE PRETEXT OF • a pretended reason for doing | English with Akram

#vocabulary

ON THE PRETEXT OF

• a pretended reason for doing something that is used to hide the real reason:

e.g. The border dispute was used as a pretext for military intervention.
e.g. I called her on the pretext of needing more information.
e.g. He came round to see her on some flimsy (= obviously false) pretext.

pretext for: The conflict was used as a pretext for introducing military rule.
on​/​under the pretext of doing something: He visited her on the pretext of borrowing a book.
a pretext to do something: A slight fall in profits gave the management a pretext to get rid of some older members of staff.

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