单词 | give someone the cold shoulder |
释义 | give someone the cold shoulder in British English informal See full dictionary entry for shouldera. to treat someone in a cold manner; snub b. to ignore or shun someone give someone the cold shoulderto deliberately ignore someone He gave me the cold shoulder at the party; he didn't talk to me at all. Synonyms of 'give someone the cold shoulder'snub, ignore, blank, put down More Synonyms of give someone the cold shoulder (idiom) He was given the cold shoulder by his former friends. Synonyms snub He snubbed her in public and made her feel an idiot. ignore I kept sending letters and cards but he just ignored me. blank (slang) put down shun From that time forward everybody shunned him. rebuff After the argument he rebuffed all their invitations. kick in the teeth (slang) ostracize She is being ostracized by members of her local community. send someone to Coventry cut (informal) She just cut me in the street. Additional synonymsin the sense of cut Definition to pretend not to recognize She just cut me in the street. Synonyms ignore, avoid, slight, blank (slang), snub, spurn, freeze (someone) out (informal), cold-shoulder, turn your back on, send to Coventry, look straight through (someone) in the sense of ignore I kept sending letters and cards but he just ignored me. Synonyms snub, cut (informal), slight, blank (slang), rebuff, cold-shoulder, turn your back on, give (someone) the cold shoulder, send (someone) to Coventry, give (someone) the brush-off, dinghy (British, slang) in the sense of ostracize Definition to exclude or banish (a person) from a particular group or from society She is being ostracized by members of her local community. Synonyms exclude, reject, boycott, avoid, exile, expel, snub, banish, shun, shut out, blacklist, cold-shoulder, cast out, excommunicate, blackball, give (someone) the cold shoulder, send to Coventry Nearby words of |
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