brush-offs

Private-care managers can be expensive, but in the first weeks after a health care crisis, even a few hours of their guidance can save you from bureaucratic brush-offs and blind alleys.

Have 'The Conversation' with aging parents before a crisis 2010

Private-care managers can be expensive, but in the first weeks after a health care crisis, even a few hours of their guidance can save you from bureaucratic brush-offs and blind alleys.

Have 'The Conversation' with aging parents before a crisis 2010

Here's a list of the brush-offs journalists should expect to encounter.

Lysandra Ohrstrom: Jargon for Jobless Journalists 2009

TSA and the police have actually been treating Parris with courtesy and doing what they can to help her, but from Continental she's gotten nothing but phone trees, disconnects, brush-offs from disinterested "customer service" people, and repeated refrains of "it's not our responsibility" -- though indications are that it is the Continental baggage handlers who are the culprits here.

Aside From That, Mrs. Lincoln, How Did You Like the Play? grrm 2007

Then, there are the knee-jerk reactions and brush-offs to anything that threatens the status quo.

InteracTiVoty: If You Don't Like Change, You're Going to Hate the Alternative - Bob Pares - MediaBizBlogger 2009

I think a guy who repeatedly comes on to me, ignoring my brush-offs, is possibly a harasser, but not a rapist.

Archive 2008-01-01 Sage 2008

I think a guy who repeatedly comes on to me, ignoring my brush-offs, is possibly a harasser, but not a rapist.

On Being Heard Sage 2008

He's entitled to his opinion, and some of the fanboy brush-offs of his review have been hilarious in their stupidity and short-sightedness.

Archive 2008-07-01 Ed Howard 2008

Questions which Sen. McCain's dismissive brush-offs do not come close to adequately answering.

Christy Hardin Smith: McCain's Cronies: All Aboard The Lobbyist Express 2008

We say that we only collect A,B, and C, so that when someone offers us P or Q, we can gracefully decline, saying "it's not you, it's me"--the gentlest of all romantic brush-offs.

Archive 2008-04-29 Lynne M Thomas 2008