brush off

brush off Slang

vb (tr, adverb)

to dismiss and ignore (a person), esp curtly

n brushoff

an abrupt dismissal or rejection

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Verb

brush off - bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances"

brush aside, discount, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside

cold-shoulder, slight - pay no attention to, disrespect; "She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance"

reject - refuse to accept or acknowledge; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper"

discredit - cause to be distrusted or disbelieved; "The paper discredited the politician with its nasty commentary"

shrug off - minimize the importance of, brush aside; "Jane shrugged off the news that her stock had fallen 3 points"

pass off - disregard; "She passed off the insult"

flout, scoff - treat with contemptuous disregard; "flout the rules"

turn a blind eye - refuse to acknowledge; "He turns a blind eye to the injustices in his office"

laugh away, laugh off - deal with a problem by laughing or pretending to be amused by it; "She laughs away all these problems"

disoblige - ignore someone's wishes

Translations

? brush off

vt sep

mud, snow → abbürsten; insect → verscheuchen

(inf: = reject) person → abblitzen lassen (inf); suggestion, criticism → zurückweisen

vi (mud etc) → sich abbürsten or (with hand, cloth) → abwischen lassen

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brush
brush aside
brush-off
brushed
brushoff
cold-shoulder
discount
discredit
dismiss
disoblige
disregard
flout
ignore
indifference
insult
laugh away
laugh off
pass off
push aside

The next day he went out to hunt, and when he came home the first thing he did was to go up to the doll and brush off some of the ashes from the fire which had fallen on its face.

The Yellow Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew View in context

I have not seen you nor your friends, and I don't think you could gather all that dust that I saw Planchet brush off your boots yesterday from the pavement of Paris.

The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context