alibi /alˈi-bī/

1. The plea in a criminal charge of having been elsewhere at the relevant time
2. The fact of being elsewhere
3. An excuse for failure (informal)

To provide an alibi for

• interdicts
• make a point of
• make a poor mouth
• make a reasonable fist of
• make a rod for one's own back
• make a shaft or a bolt of it
• make as if
• make a song about
• make a song and dance about
• make a spectacle of oneself
• make a splash
• make a spoon
• make a stand
• make as though
• make at
• make a thing of
• make a virtue of necessity
• make away
• make away with
• make a wry face
• make a wry mouth
• make bad weather of it
• makebate
• makebates
• make-belief