Getting the brush-off is a fact of life for any sales person.

If you try to pass this point, I'll see that you get the brush-off for sure.

Getting the brush-off just made him sulk and become petulant.

The men walked and walked, got the brush-off from the Mayor, and left.

The Liverpool lads got the brush-off and were annoyed.

If one writes to British Rail, one gets the brush-off.

'I suppose that's why the other lads got the brush-off then?'

"Ah, but if you try to pass me, I'll yell, and you'll get the brush-off," the headstone warned.

Mr. Brown, the Harlem developer, said he got the brush-off when he tried to help a music producer lease the studio.

Then she encountered a headstone who sounded the alarm so that she would get the brush-off, and that huge flying brush really terrified her.

Only to get the brush-off; the police had been advised that someone was trying to harass Walter Toland by phone, and to ignore any odd calls.

Keanu Reeves getting the brush-off from Lou Reed in Permanent Record

DURING Steve Connolly's early days in the seafood business back in the late 1940's, he was accustomed to getting the brush-off.

Published in January 2010 by Gotham Books, the book was inspired by Klausner's New York Times "Modern Love" piece about getting the brush-off from an indie rock musician.

She'd been thinking of taking a quarter but now, instead, she snapped the container shut and stuck it back in her pocket, feeling annoyed, feeling like a junkie getting the brush-off by the pusher him- self.

Without even thinking, I got up and brushed off the table.

I brushed off her hand and made it to my feet.

However, if he brushes off the entire matter, then you should have no more to do with him.

That's why I keep brushing off the girls at school.

Then I brushed off a chair and set it in place.

It probably took them 20 minutes to brush off their cars to get home that night.

Larry decided there was no point in trying to brush off the water.

She and her staff did not just brush off the complaint.

She looked down at herself and started brushing off grass.

He let go of the rail and brushed off his hands.

He brushed off his pants and turned to the old man.

I sat up and started to brush off the cut grass.

I got up and brushed off the back of my pants.

Top officials will often brush off complaints until they read about themselves in the local news media.

Not really, he thought, brushing off a moment of anxiety.

Like others, she brushed off the possibility of a federal solution.

Yet their reports of abuse, they said, were brushed off.

She tried to get in to see him, but was brushed off by aides.

He was moving through the low brush off to the warrior's right.

It is a matter of pride to brush off pain.

A powerful voice came from the brush off behind the horses.

He stood up and brushed off the back of his robe.

He brushes off his frustration because he's happy to see her.

He also brushed off a chance to set the record straight without lying.

He brushed off his hands and cut across the garden to the front gate.