brush off

“You’re not on the list,” he was told twice by a Troubadour doorman, and given the brush-off.

Critics say the brush-off is a bad look for the leader of the free world and hurts U.S. diplomatic relations.

The Michigan Civil Rights Commission said it was the result of systemic racism, doubting that the water switch and the brush-off of complaints in the majority-Black city would have occurred in a white, prosperous community.

Border experts were stunned by the president’s brush-off.

She's not, of course, and both her initial brush-off of Nori as well as her rush to say a wrenching farewell at the last moment are the most painfully real parts of this hour.