"slightest excuse" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a very small or minor reason or justification for something. Example: He would jump at the slightest excuse to leave work early, even if it meant missing important meetings.
But there's always someone who'll shit themselves at the slightest excuse".
The European property market was at its frothiest, with developers throwing up luxury apartments and offices at the slightest excuse.
Dissatisfaction also makes the French a particularly fractious people to govern, ready as they are to contest, and protest, at the slightest excuse.
Although he got cut in the starting stalls he ran a good race and Bill Williamson said he had not the slightest excuse.
Beetling to Colorado Despite Kerouac's and Simon's tendency to leap aboard a bus at the slightest excuse, they inspired my good friend Chris and me to go looking for America in the Eighties.
As a result, plot becomes a bit secondary while we wait for the next impression (everyone from Wogan to Walken) to be crowbarred into the narrative at the slightest excuse.
For so slight an excuse as this, soumak rugs for a long time were confusingly sold as "Cashmeres".
And because this column only needs the slightest of excuses to trot out its favourite quote, do recall the case of Elizabeth Taylor's former gardener, who alleged he was sexually assaulted by her butler.
Utah State was the latest in a long line of teams to use a perceived slight as an excuse for added emotion, having entered with a No. 12 seeding that the Aggies did not feel matched their 30-3 record or No. 19 Associated Press ranking.
Do you think she may have seized upon this minor slight as an excuse to end the friendship?
"Excuse me, slight digression..."....
