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silent treatment
noun
- an act or instance of maintaining silence or aloofness toward another person, especially as a means of indicating disapproval or rejection.
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Origin of silent treatment1
First recorded in 1945–50
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"I was on probation, I didn't know this person. I thought he might make my life hard at work, that he might give me the silent treatment," she said.
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As his teammates continued to give him the silent treatment, Ohtani raised his arms and waved them.
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On their long car ride back from Washington, she gave him the silent treatment, talking to him only through their eldest son.
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“I’m not really understanding what the silent treatment is,†Drescher said.
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Teammates gave him the silent treatment and then mobbed him at the end of the dugout to celebrate Rizzo’s 12th homer.
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