"send to Coventry" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Some believe that the phrase dates from the English Civil War, when a military prison was located in that city. Others say it dates from the 18th century, when Coventry was the nearest town to London that lay outside the jurisdiction of the Bow Street Runners and so London criminals would flee to Coventry to escape arrest.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sends to Coventry",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sending to Coventry",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sent to Coventry",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sent to Coventry",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "send to Coventry (third-person singular simple present sends to Coventry, present participle sending to Coventry, simple past and past participle sent to Coventry)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The group decided to send the unpopular members to Coventry.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, H. Irving Hancock, Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis, →ISBN, page 159:",
          "text": "\"For the statement, in the form in which I offered it, Mr. President, I have no retraction or apology to offer, and only such explanation as I have lately given.\" \"Coventry! Coventry!\" came the insistent call. \"Well, then, you can send me to Coventry, you friends of Darrin, if you feel yourselves justified in doing it!\" quivered Midshipman Jetson, tossing his head and glaring defiantly around the room.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To ostracize, or systematically ignore someone."
      ],
      "id": "en-send_to_Coventry-en-verb-sZnlAm9k",
      "links": [
        [
          "ostracize",
          "ostracize"
        ],
        [
          "systematically",
          "systematically"
        ],
        [
          "ignore",
          "ignore"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To ostracize, or systematically ignore someone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ],
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        "Bow Street Runners",
        "Coventry",
        "English Civil War",
        "London",
        "send to Coventry"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "send to Coventry"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Some believe that the phrase dates from the English Civil War, when a military prison was located in that city. Others say it dates from the 18th century, when Coventry was the nearest town to London that lay outside the jurisdiction of the Bow Street Runners and so London criminals would flee to Coventry to escape arrest.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sends to Coventry",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sending to Coventry",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sent to Coventry",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sent to Coventry",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "send<,,sent> to Coventry"
      },
      "expansion": "send to Coventry (third-person singular simple present sends to Coventry, present participle sending to Coventry, simple past and past participle sent to Coventry)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English predicates",
        "English terms derived from toponyms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The group decided to send the unpopular members to Coventry.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, H. Irving Hancock, Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis, →ISBN, page 159:",
          "text": "\"For the statement, in the form in which I offered it, Mr. President, I have no retraction or apology to offer, and only such explanation as I have lately given.\" \"Coventry! Coventry!\" came the insistent call. \"Well, then, you can send me to Coventry, you friends of Darrin, if you feel yourselves justified in doing it!\" quivered Midshipman Jetson, tossing his head and glaring defiantly around the room.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To ostracize, or systematically ignore someone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ostracize",
          "ostracize"
        ],
        [
          "systematically",
          "systematically"
        ],
        [
          "ignore",
          "ignore"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To ostracize, or systematically ignore someone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
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        "Coventry",
        "English Civil War",
        "London",
        "send to Coventry"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "send to Coventry"
}