brush-off

*brush-off

Fig. rejection; being cast aside and ignored. (*Typically: get ~; give someone ~.) Don't talk to Tom. He'll just give you the brush-off. I went up to her and asked for a date, but I got the brush-off.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
MatjaŽ	-	Slovene
Teodor	te-AW-dawr (Polish), TE-o-dor (Croatian)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Hungarian,
Ognyana	-	Bulgarian
Charley	CHAHR-lee	English
Karl	[ka:l]
Cairbre	KAHR-bra	Irish, Scottish