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Sent to Coventry - the meaning and origin of this phrase. ... Phrases, Sayings and Idioms Home > Phrase Dictionary - Meanings and Origins > Sent to Coventry...
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[Q] From Bill McCord: As a native of that city I am often asked for the origin of the phrase to be sent to Coventry. ... He says that Royalist troops who were captured in Birmingham (then a small town, not the great city that grew up later on the back of the Industrial Revolution) were taken for security to Coventry,
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Send to Coventry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To send someone to Coventry is a British idiom meaning to ostracise someone, usually by not talking to them. To be sent to Coventry is to be regarded as absent. It is often used by children to bully...
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History of Coventry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the history of Coventry , a city in the West Midlands, England. From its humble beginnings as a settlement around a Saxon nunnery c. AD 700, Coventry grew to become one of th...
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The phrase sent to Coventry comes from The English Civil Wars of the 1640s. The Royalist troops, nicknamed The Cavaliers, who were captured in Birmingham by the Roundheads, lead by Oliver Cromwell, were sent to a Parliamentary stronghold prison in Coventry.
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A Royalist in Coventry would, no doubt, have been very unpopular, so "to be sent to Coventry" came to be a popular saying meaning "to be ostracized." It has also been suggested that Coventry was used as a place of execution during the same period, in which case "to be sent to Coventry" signaled a fate somewhat worse...
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Origin of the name ... Ranulf was succeeded as earl by his son, Hugh II, who it appears was also rebellious, and in 1173 held Coventry's castle against the king - this time King Henry II. Henry sent a strong force to Coventry - and the rebellion, and almost certainly the castle, was destroyed.
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Avatar star Sam Worthington to play Prince Vlad in Dracula origin tale ... Coventry Telegraph staff and guest bloggers look at the latest science fiction and comic book news and developments from around the world...
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