short shrift
6
8.4
- idiom
- /ʃɔrt ʃrɪft/
- Informal
:
poca consideración
- Franklin has received seriously short shrift as a scientist.
- give short shrift
- get short shrift
- receive short shrift
Lower income communities, short shrift on this whole thing and then you end up with Flint.
- Lower income communities, short shrift on this whole thing and then you end up with Flint.
- I don't want to give our college experience short shrift because I think there's a lot to explore there.
- And the only reason I'm emphasizing that is that it's, it sometimes gets short shrift when people are thinking about film or they're they're learning to make films.
Examples
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Whatever the reason, Balfanz says that giving the middle grades short shrift is a serious mistake.
Blog text (26) -
In planning and executing the campaign in Afghanistan, the administration gave NATO short shrift.
Academic text (2002) -
Since ancient title is given short shrift in the U.N.
Academic text (2016) -
For the past half hour, reporters had been getting short shrift.
Fiction book (1999) -
How can any country sustain its foreign policy if it continually gives short shrift to its national interests?
Academic text (2000) -
Florida defenders still beef regularly about getting short shrift from the state.
Academic text (2001) -
The other elements of the game as a whole, as well as the interactivity variable, were given short shrift.
Academic text (2016) -
The fact that trade has relatively little short-term impact on employment and wages has gotten short shrift.
Academic text (1996) -
Even at the superficial level of quantitative analysis, considerations of class are given short shrift in feminist studies.
Academic text (2005) -
The new law was given short shrift by critics who felt it ignored important issues.
Synonyms
1
7.5
A way of showing you do not value someone's ideas or feelings
Antonyms
How Attentive
- Formal
11
3.5
148
2.9
- Informal
6
8.4
61
4.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
short + shrift
The noun 'shrift' is archaic/uncommon and its historical meaning ('confession' or 'time for confession') is not known to most B1 learners, so knowing 'short' does not allow them to infer the modern sense. The phrase is idiomatic: its dismissive meaning ('little or quick attention') is historically derived and not compositional or cross-linguistically obvious, making it unpredictable for learners.
Etymology
Short shrift comes from an old word shrift, which meant a quick confession before someone was punished. If a person had a short shrift, they had little time and mercy, so the phrase now means 'quick or little attention'.