to refuse to listen to someone, or to accept that something might be true or important
He had been trying to get her to call him Nelson since long before the brush-off, but no sir!
I tried asking him if he could tell anything from the readings but got the usual `you'll need to speak to the doctor ' brush-off.
I tried to tell him, but he just brushed me off.
Jupiter grunted, trying to brush off the small creatures who seemed to be swarming all over him.
Something crashed through the brush off to their right, making Cooper jump.
That helped his hangover, too, but he couldn't so easily brush off the questions about Katherine.
The Foreign Secretary brushed off suggestions that he had considered resigning.
The boy hung back; Coffin felt bad about the brush-off, but it was all for the best.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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