賴laai6地dei6硬ngaang6

English

1. (to blame the land for being hard); to make excuses and deny one's responsibility; a bad workman blames his tools
2. to make a far-fetched excuse for one's own fault or failure; to attribute an undesirable outcome to an unrelated or a remotely related variable; literally, to blame the hardness of ground on which one stands

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 編造一個牽強嘅藉口開脱一己過失或失敗；歸咎於無關痛癢嘅變數

Examples

• 屙屎唔出賴地硬

  an idiomatic and more vulgar expression that bears the same meaning as '賴地硬'; literally, to blame one's constipation on the hardness of ground on which one tried to defecate

• 對面隊輸咗場波，個隊長就響度賴地硬。

  The captain of the other team ascribed their loss to the hardness of the pitch.