to send someone to Coventry
to ignore someone completely
TRANSLATION
send someone to Coventry = jmd. (absichtlich) nicht beachten oder berücksichtigen, jmd. ignorieren, jmd. schneiden
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
There has always been bullying in school but 40 years ago it was usually confined to name-calling or BEING SENT TO COVENTRY. Bad enough, perhaps, but nothing like the violence which defines "bullying"* today.
The Scotsman
* bullying = Mobbing
The Scotsman
* bullying = Mobbing
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to be sent to Coventry (Brit. English)
: to be socially ignored, ostracised
(ostracise = verbannen; jmdn. ausschließen)
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ORIGIN
This idiom is generally taken to refer to events during the English Civil Wars of the 1640s between forces loyal to the King and those loyal to Parliament.
The first appearance of the phrase was in 1647, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon. Royalist troops who were captured in Birmingham (then a small town) were taken for security to Coventry, a Parliamentarian stronghold, where understandably, they were not welcome.
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SYNONYMS
brush off, disregard, evade, give someone the cold shoulder, blank someone, ignore, neglect, ostracise, overlook, pay no attention to someone, pay someone no mind, take no notice of someone, to give someone the cold shoulder
: to be socially ignored, ostracised
(ostracise = verbannen; jmdn. ausschließen)
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ORIGIN
This idiom is generally taken to refer to events during the English Civil Wars of the 1640s between forces loyal to the King and those loyal to Parliament.
The first appearance of the phrase was in 1647, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon. Royalist troops who were captured in Birmingham (then a small town) were taken for security to Coventry, a Parliamentarian stronghold, where understandably, they were not welcome.
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SYNONYMS
brush off, disregard, evade, give someone the cold shoulder, blank someone, ignore, neglect, ostracise, overlook, pay no attention to someone, pay someone no mind, take no notice of someone, to give someone the cold shoulder
