Question

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “chapter XVIII”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:

Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head.

Accepted Answer

(idiomatichttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic) To disregardhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disregard (something), to dismisshttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dismiss or ignorehttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ignore (someone), as unimportant.

Sentence	1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “chapter XVIII”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855: Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head.
Definition	( idiomatic https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic ) To disregard https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disregard (something), to dismiss https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dismiss or ignore https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ignore (someone), as unimportant.

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