brush off

Definitions

1. 1

   To disregard (something), to dismiss or ignore (someone), as unimportant.

   • Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head.
   • In a statement sent to the Guardian early on Friday, hours before Trump’s post was taken down, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, attempted to brush off the outrage.
2. 2

   To depart with a sweeping motion

   To depart with a sweeping motion; to rush away.

   • Thus, ſeizing his hat, he bruſh’d off like the wind, / And the Porter and Eatables follow’d behind.
3. 3

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brush, off. To remove something with a brush.

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   1. 4

      Nonstandard spelling of brush-off.

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