give the time of day

1. see not give someone the time of day.

Example Sentences

Well, none of this brass would give the time of day to the treasonous commander-in-chief.

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And that’s when they engage with it in the first place, the vast majority being unlikely to give the time of day to an entertainment so openly trumpeting its liberal bona fides.

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Cookies, she said, have brought her close to people she would otherwise never give the time of day, like her roommate at CookieCon, who was an ardent Trump supporter.

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Once there, she cheerily knocked on doors of record labels, despite steep odds that anyone on Music Row would give the time of day to an 11-year-old.

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The atomic clock, Essen noted, “did not give the time of day, of course, but this is not required.”

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