send someone to Coventry - significado y definición. Qué es send someone to Coventry
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Qué (quién) es send someone to Coventry - definición

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Sent to Coventry; Sending to Coventry; Send to coventry

send someone to Coventry      
chiefly Brit.
refuse to associate with or speak to someone. [perh. from the unpopularity of royalist soldiers or prisoners quartered in Coventry (sympathetic to parliament) during the English Civil War.]
Send to Coventry         
To send someone to Coventry is an idiom used in England meaning to deliberately ostracise someone. Typically, this is done by not talking to them, avoiding their company, and acting as if they no longer exist.
send to Coventry         

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Send to Coventry

To send someone to Coventry is an idiom used in England meaning to deliberately ostracise someone. Typically, this is done by not talking to them, avoiding their company, and acting as if they no longer exist. In essence, and by modern parlance, to ‘blank’ someone. Coventry is a cathedral city historically in Warwickshire.