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Coventry

['kɔvəntri] [ˈkʌvɪntri]
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
  • PHRASE
    (作为惩罚)拒绝与某人交谈
    If people send you to Coventry, they avoid speaking to you whenever they meet you, as a way of punishing you for something that you have done.
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  • Noun
    1. the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent);
    "the association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry"
    2. an industrial city in central England; devastated by air raids during World War II; remembered as the home of Lady Godiva in the 11th century