Archive for sent to Coventry
abseiling down Coventry cathedral
Posted in Mountains, pictures, University life with tags abseiling, charity, climbing, Coventry, Coventry cathedral, England, ruins, sent to Coventry, The Myton Hospices, University of Warwick on October 8, 2018 by xi'an
chance meeting
Posted in Statistics with tags backpack, Birmingham, CHANCE, CRiSM, National Rail, sent to Coventry, train, University of Warwick, Valencia 9, Valencia conferences on July 10, 2018 by xi'an
As I was travelling to Coventry yesterday, I spotted this fellow passenger on the train from Birmingham with a Valencia 9 bag, and a chat with him. It was a pure chance encounter as he was not attending our summer school, but continued down the line. (These bags are quite sturdy and I kept mine until a zipper broke.)
sent to Coventry!
Posted in Books, pictures, Travel with tags Coventry, England, English, English Civil War, sent to Coventry, University of Warwick on May 7, 2016 by xi'an
The other day, my wife came across the expression sent to Coventry and asked me what the reason was for this expression, which Wikitionary explains as
Verb
send to Coventry (third-person singular simple present sends to Coventry, present participle sending to Coventry, simple past and past participle sent to Coventry)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To ostracise, or systematically ignore someone.
- The group decided to send the unpopular members to Coventry.
I had never heard this expression before, certainly not while in Coventry, so checked on Wikipedia to see whether or not it was related to the rather unappealing down-town postwar reconstruction. As it appears, the most likely connection is much more ancient as it relates to royalist troops being sent to Coventry, a parliamentarian town during the English Civil War,
