For reasons no one is clear on, English people say someone is "sent to Coventry" to mean ostracised: not talking to the person, avoiding their company, and acting as if they no longer exist.
Today I'm technically being sent to Coventry for work, but it's because Coventry is a city where a thing is that I need to go look at.
The idiom, and its cathedral (rebuilt after WWII after being famously bombed to destruction), is all I know about Coventry so far.
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