get short shrift

To be or feel ignored, disregarded, or excluded; to get very little time or attention. As the middle child with a troublesome older brother and a needy younger sister, I felt like I got short shrift growing up. Despite the urgency of the problem, the minister's proposed solutions are getting short shrift in parliament.

get short shrift

COMMON If someone or something gets short shrift, they are treated very rudely or given very little attention. Unfortunately, these proposals are likely to get short shrift from the government. Anyone who complains will get short shrift from me. Note: You can also say that someone gives someone or something short shrift. When I was a waitress I gave short shrift to customers who got on my nerves. Such objections are likely to be given short shrift by the committee. Note: `Shrift' is an old word meaning confession to a priest. In the past, condemned criminals were allowed only a few minutes to make their confession before they were executed.

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释义	get short shrift get short shrift To be or feel ignored, disregarded, or excluded; to get very little time or attention. As the middle child with a troublesome older brother and a needy younger sister, I felt like I got short shrift growing up. Despite the urgency of the problem, the minister's proposed solutions are getting short shrift in parliament. See also: get, short, shrift Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. get short shrift COMMON If someone or something gets short shrift, they are treated very rudely or given very little attention. Unfortunately, these proposals are likely to get short shrift from the government. Anyone who complains will get short shrift from me. Note: You can also say that someone gives someone or something short shrift. When I was a waitress I gave short shrift to customers who got on my nerves. Such objections are likely to be given short shrift by the committee. Note: `Shrift' is an old word meaning confession to a priest. In the past, condemned criminals were allowed only a few minutes to make their confession before they were executed. See also: get, short, shrift Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. See also: shrift get the go-by sticks and stones may break my bones (but words will never hurt me) sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me stony fall on stony ground be worse off hard words break no bones be like talking to a brick wall References in periodicals archive Kyoto's negatives get short shrift. A study by the Media Research Center's Free Market Project--covering network news broadcasts between Jan. Truth melts down This move stretches the groin, or the "turn-in" muscles, which often get short shrift. To stretch the "turn-out" muscles in the hip joints, he has dancers lie on their backs with knees bent and feet on the floor, then place one ankle on the opposite thigh, reach under the supporting leg, and pull forward. The facts on backs. (Health and Fitness For Life) The Bus Riders Union, an arm of the activist Labor/Community Strategy Center, says bus passengers get short shrift in Los Angeles, and that there's a racial component to the unfair treatment. Second-Class Transit?
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