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- noun Plural form of
brush-off .
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Examples
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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
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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
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Here's a list of the brush-offs journalists should expect to encounter.
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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
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Then, there are the knee-jerk reactions and brush-offs to anything that threatens the status quo.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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