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
Berta	BER-tah (Polish, German, Italian)	Polish, Czech, Hungarian, German, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Slovene
AbÍLio	ə-BEE-lyoo	Portuguese
Mahalah	-	Biblical
Mahon	-	Irish
Onesimos	-	Ancient Greek, Biblical Greek
Sekhar	-	Indian, Telugu, Bengali