Dingbat Help

[Martindavenport]

Todays Western Daily News

trot and a box with the word excuse and what look like either fangs or quotation marks 

can't see anything here!

[JJ109]

Are the fangs "ditto"?

Trot out the same excuse

[AME10032]

Good answers,  thank you !    One further observation is that the word 'excuse'  is in olde-style lettering,   so the ultimate best answer might  actually be  "trot out the same old excuse" !