sending to Coventry
NOUN
silent treatment
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Example Sentences
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There are many degrees in the lowering of the social temperature: coolness, formality of intercourse, averted looks, "cutting dead," "sending to Coventry," form a progressive series.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
