A: I broke up with Johnny when he was late for a movie again.

B: Take it easy, you should listen to his explanation.

A: I was tired of those cookie-cutter excuses for why he was late.

Note: A “cookie cutter” in American English and “biscuit cutter” in Commonwealth English is a tool to cut out cookie dough in a particular shape. When used as an adjective, it is defined as a “lack of originality or distinction,” a reference to the uniformity that results from the use of a cookie cutter. In this usage a hyphen is often inserted to group the concept “cookie cutter” into a single modifier. One example is a reference to a suburban subdivision’s housing, all looking pretty much alike, as “cookie-cutter homes.”