To: Eleutheria5
And in The Angry Silence by John Burke, “being sent to Coventry” was an idiomatic expression meaning ostracism, based on that decision by Churchill to not tell Coventry they were about to be bombed. Considering that the expression was in use in the 1800's I doubt it.
63 posted on
02/25/2018 6:18:50 PM PST by
Harmless Teddy Bear
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
OK. I concede my ignorance of this Britishism, then. That’s what I had thought.
66 posted on
02/25/2018 11:35:22 PM PST by
Eleutheria5
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