think up

We use [think something up] to mean use one's ingenuity to plan or invent something:

•  We need to give a reason. We can’t just delay with no explanation. [replacing phrasal verb]
  
• We need to invent an excuse. We can’t just delay with no explanation. [replacing phrasal verb]
• We need to create a reason. We can’t just delay with no explanation. [replacing phrasal verb]

• If you can think up a plan to save the project, I’ll be forever grateful.
  
• I can’t think up a good reason for delaying the opening but if we can, it would give us the time we need.
• The idea was thought up by my mother while she was cooking. How she connected the two ideas, I still don’t know.
  

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