alienate

alienate (one) from

1. To isolate or estrange one from something. Her status as the teacher's pet alienated Lisa from her peers.
2. To cause a person or group to reject something. The candidate alienated many potential voters from his party when he insulted blue-collar workers.
See also: alienate
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

alienate someone from someone or something

to cause someone to feel negative about someone or something. The teacher alienated the entire class from the subject of calculus.
See also: alienate
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • alienate (one) from
  • alienate from
  • fall over (oneself) to (do something)
  • fall over oneself
  • fall over yourself
  • fall over yourself to do something
  • be dead set against (someone or something)
  • be dead set against something
  • be set against (something)
  • be set against something/against doing something
References in periodicals archive
"How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" is one of those films that's dead on arrival.
Pegg film loses, alienates audience
Kirsten Dunst and Simon Pegg team up for the comedy How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (15) in which Jeff Bridges (below) plays a renowned New York magazine editor.
A lesson in how to lose comedy fans
The cast of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People includes Simon Pegg from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz; Spider-Man heroine Kirsten Dunst, X-Files star Gillian Anderson and Jeff Bridges from K-PAX and Seabiscuit.
FILM
In a tight race, he'd be loathe to alienate any Republican.
Meanwhile in America
How To Lose Friends & Alienate people will be released on October 3, but you can see it first at Cineworld Broad Street at 6.30pm for 7.30pm on Tuesday, September 30, followed by drinks at Gatecrasher.
Pegg's premiere in Brum
She said: "To be told that we set out to alienate minority groups is a very narrow-minded view that I'm sure does not represent the general view in the country."
Three Little Pigs tale too offensive
If we continue to ignore and alienate our youth, there is no doubt that the church will soon disappear.
Hungry for guidance
As Daalder and Lindsay contend, it can't afford to alienate the world.
Bush's bad foreign policy: unilateralism and remaking the world don't mix
But Democrats will only go so far down the path of ignoring scientific evidence because they don't want to alienate their scientific supporters.
Science friction: the growing--and dangerous--divide between scientists and the GOP
However, the judge worried that the father's negative attitude toward the mother could manifest itself in an attempt by the father to alienate the child from the mother through parental alienation syndrome.
Parental alienation syndrome
Because H was never entitled to the plan benefits, it was not possible for him to assign or alienate the benefits.
Disclaimer of plan benefits or IRA by spouse if a decedent is not a prohibited assignment or alienation
ALAN Murray (Police alienate people they need help from, Voice Of The North, November 23) believes the police are wasting their time, and alienating the public, by focusing on speeding motorists instead of catching "'real criminals".
Letter: Voice of the - Police stop real villains
conventional ethylene glycol based antifreeze." He insisted that there was no intent "to alienate the hunting and outdoorsman community," since the company was unaware that "the AHA has apparently taken some active stances against certain rights of hunters." But after learning about it, he said, "we have made a decision to sever our sponsorship with the AHA."
Anti-hunter antifreeze?
Within two weeks of entering parliament, Alliance leader Stephen Harper has managed to alienate the Maritimes by saying they lacked drive and initiative, and Canadians in general by telling them they should cuddle up to the Americans.
Harper's Alliance out already? (News in Brief)