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roger.essex | 18:30 Wed 17th Apr 2002 | Phrases & Sayings
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What is the origin of "sent to Coventry"
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The expression dates back to the English Civil War, when high ranking Royalist prisoners were sent to the town of Coventry, home of a large Parliamentarian garrison. Because the town population were supporters of Cromwell's army, very few of the townsfolk would have anything to do with the Royalists and their friends from which the expression 'sent to Coventry' originates, meaning to be ignored or ostracised.
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