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
Hesiod	HES-ee-əd (English), HEE-see-əd (English)	Ancient Greek (Anglicized)
Corynn	-	English (Rare)
Nevra	-	Turkish
Konstancja	kawn-STAHNTS-yah	Polish
Izabela	ee-zah-BE-lah	Polish
Kaja (1)	KAH-yah (Swedish, Estonian)	Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Estonian, Slovene