get short shrift

to receive very little attention Bus riders feel they've been getting short shrift from the transit agency for years, and they are angry about the new fare increase.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ananth	-	Tamil, Indian, Telugu, Kannada
Basit	-	Arabic
Peppino	-	Italian
Kyung-Sook	gyung-sook	Korean
Viivi	VEE:-vee	Finnish
Surya	SOOR-yah (Indonesian)	Hinduism, Indian, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Indonesian