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单词 brush someone/thing aside
释义

brush someone/thing aside

Dismiss someone or something curtly and confidently: he brushed aside attacks on his policies...
  • She had taken her prospectus to a colleague, but he dismissed the idea, brushing it aside with ‘the industry is too broad.’
  • Sure, one can have an opinion, but it can be brushed aside, shrugged off - it's just your point of view, after all.
  • The ‘because I say so’ attitude of old seems to be disappearing - largely because street-wise, confident children are brushing it aside, demanding to be given the rationale behind requests.

Synonyms

disregard, ignore, dismiss, shrug off, pass over, put aside, sweep aside, wave aside;
overlook, pay no attention to, take no notice of, refuse to acknowledge, neglect, think no more of, forget about, have no time for, shut one's eyes to, turn a blind eye to, turn a deaf ear to;
reject, spurn, flout;
scoff at, laugh off, make light of, trivialize, belittle, minimize
informal play down, pooh-pooh, cock a snook at
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