Quoting%20commentary for Avodah Zarah 51:16

אמר ליה אביי יכול לומר לו קאי ברי אאיגרא אי נמי נקיטא לי זימנא לבי דואר

Abaye said to him: He could say [in excuse], “My son is on the roof’, or, “I have to keep an appointment at the court.”

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