send to Coventry

send somebody to Coventry

(British informal)

if a group of people send someone to Coventry, they refuse to speak to them, usually in order to punish them The other workers sent him to Coventry for not supporting the strike.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Zusa	-	Yiddish
Lennart	LE-nahrt (Low German)	Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Low German, Dutch
Hermine	her-MEE-nə (German)	German, French
Seeta	-	Indian, Hindi
Jessika	YE-si-kah (German), JES-i-kə (English)	German, English (Modern)
Widukind	-	Ancient Germanic