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Brush aside

verb

Bar from attention or consideration. Synonyms: brush off, discount, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside.

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"Brush aside" Quotes from Famous Books

... the reverse created a tremendous sensation throughout Natal, where it had been confidently anticipated that the army would brush aside without difficulty the opposition of the Boers, relieve Ladysmith and, advancing sweep the invaders out of the colony. In England, too, the sensation was scarcely less pronounced, and for the first time the gravity of the ...

— With Buller in Natal - A Born Leader • G. A. Henty

Words linked to "Brush aside" : laugh off, scoff, cold-shoulder, discount, turn a blind eye, reject, disoblige, flout, pass off, slight, laugh away, shrug off, discredit