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the airtight excuse that crumbles the instant someone checks the timestamps
means A defense or claim that you were somewhere else when something happened, proving you couldn't have done it.
from Straight from Latin, where alibi simply meant 'elsewhere' — a cousin of alius, 'other.' It entered English as a legal term for the plea that you were in another place at the crucial moment, and only later loosened into the everyday sense of any handy excuse.
- latin root
- means simply elsewhere in Latin
- legal weight
- proving presence elsewhere can outweigh eyewitnesses
- cell betrayal
- phone tower pings demolish countless fabricated ones
- too perfect
- detectives distrust alibis that fit suspiciously well
for instance
bruno hauptmann lindbergh case — carpenter claimed to be in new york when lindbergh's son was kidnapped in new jersey in 1932, but evidence proved he was lying