brush off

Definition

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

Example Sentences

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