An all-purpose excuse that people use during a [recession] to justify doing things that are below their usual standard. Often these things in reality have little or nothing to do with the economic circumstances.
> Harry: "You took your girlfriend to Applebee's on [Valentine's Day]? Pretty weak."
> Larry: "Whatever man, I didn't have a choice. Bad economy."
> Senator: "Mr. Paulson, you really want to give the greedy, soulless bankers who caused this mess $700 billion with no strings attached?"
> [Henry Paulson]: "Hey guys, bad economy. [Just do it]."
> Senator: "Good point. I vote yes."
> Fred: "Dude, tell me you didn't go home with that [broke down] 300-pound whale I saw you with at O'Shea's last night."
> Brendan: "Dude, it's a bad economy. I'll take what I can get."
> Fred: "Yeah, I guess you have to."

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Abererch
adjusting drilling machine
advance organizers
Amerindian
aquiculture in farm pond
arm(rest)
automatic burette
axiomatic approach
B663
base transmission factor
biliary diabetes
biosparging process
Bootybrows
Botryococcus
burraxka silch
chlorine-containing peptide
commercial investment
competitve bid
counterfacades
crotalarias
cruising operating mode management
cursed with
delta connection
dictostyliums
Diperocarpus
diplosomia
Dislocated Workers
dug iron
Dysoxylum hainanense
econiche
effective cross current
electro deposited mould
electronic mud tester
elephantiasis scroti
ex-reactor experiment
familiarisings
fish poison
flex joint ball type
flex-abrasion resistance
four-stroke engines
glass reinforced concrete
grammographus notabilis
gravitational unit system
Hamburg parsley
high speed typewriter
hole-basis system
horse whisperer
huggings
industrial crystallization
irrefragableness
kidneyed
lateroprotrusion
legal tenders
light heavyweights
longitudinal consequent stream
macromitrium foxworthyi
mail surveys
marinette
Marti
methylene group
mistura ferri aromatica
modularot sensitivity
mud fever
myocardial calcification
negative rack
Neillia sinensis
Nikkei
Nodi lymphatici iliaci externi laterales
non repetitive transaction
nontin
northbrae
o-tolyl-biguanide
oligothiophenes
oroville
overholding
perineuria
Phyllotominae
plomin
POL system
potassium dithionate
predicated firing
purposively
resort of thieves
ripsawing
Rungia chinensis
safeguard measures
scums
silba atratula
size reduction ratio
soft laser
sphygmomanometrically
stretch rotary forming
sungkar
talent corps
Thalberg, Irving Grant
Thermopsis lanceolata
time in
trinaphthylene
tuberculosis of Cowper gland
UHT
VDI
xylophobia