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give someone the brush-off
vs
send to Coventry
give someone the brush-off
verb
To rebuff, snub or curtly reject someone.
send to Coventry
verb
To ostracize, or systematically ignore someone.
How often have the words
give someone the brush-off
and
send to Coventry
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)