give sb the time of day
If someone will not give you the time of day, they are unfriendly and refuse to speak to you:
We had an argument with our neighbours, and now they won't even give us the time of day.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not being friendly
- (at) daggers drawn idiom
- abrasive
- aloof
- antisocial
- asocial
- austere
- estrange
- estranged
- forbidding
- frostily
- hostile
- impersonal
- mixer
- saturnine
- sour
- unwelcoming
- wintry
- with friends like you, who needs enemies? idiom
- withdraw
- withdrawal
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