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cold-shoulder
vs
give someone the brush-off
cold-shoulder
verb
To disrespect someone, especially by ignoring them.
give someone the brush-off
verb
To rebuff, snub or curtly reject someone.
How often have the words
cold-shoulder
and
give someone the brush-off
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)