cut someone dead

Pretend not to see or recognize someone, as in "Any fellow was to be cut dead by the entire school" (Benjamin Disraeli, Vivien Grey, 1826). This idiom, in the first half of the 1600s, began as to cut one; in the early 1800s dead was added for greater emphasis.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Yevgeny	yev-GYE-nee, eev-GYE-nee	Russian
Rosa (1)	RO-sah (Spanish, Dutch), RAW-zah (Italian), RO-zə (English)	Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, German, English
Dipali	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi
Idan	-	Hebrew
Thamar	-	Biblical Greek, Biblical Latin
Halvar	-	Swedish