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freeze out
verb
- informal.tr, adverb to force out or exclude, as by unfriendly behaviour, boycotting, etc
Idioms and Phrases
Shut out or exclude by unfriendly treatment; force to retire or withdraw from membership, a job, or the like. For example, They tried to freeze me out of the conversation , or After Bill was frozen out of the case, they hired a new lawyer . [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
Although there is great uncertainty, right now it looks like the federal government is freezing out Golden State libraries altogether.
Hart found himself frozen out for a time at Manchester City and Micah Richards did not have the greatest time at Aston Villa.
The Sheffield-born keeper found herself frozen out of the first team and did not make an appearance in the first half of the season, but she was also struggling off the pitch.
She has since told the BBC she has been "frozen out" by her Church of England colleagues.
The plot is a series of unfortunate events, with Karoline becoming pregnant by her boss only to be frozen out by his mother and fired from her job.
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