give someone the cold shoulder

Etymology
First recorded use of the expression was in 1816 by Sir Walter Scott in Scots (“The Countess’s dislike didna gang farther at first than just showing o’ the cauld shouther”.) This expression and its German equivalent are mistranslations of  umerum recedentem from the Book of Nehemiah 9:29 from the Vulgate Bible, which actually means "stubbornly they turned their backs on you", which comes from the Septuagint Bible's equivalent νῶτον ἀπειθοῦντα. Latin umerus means both "shoulder" and "back".

Verb

 * 1)  To snub, resist or reject somebody; to regard somebody distantly.
 * I must have made him angry with my comment. He’s been giving me the cold shoulder ever since I said it.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Dutch: links laten liggen
 * Finnish: olla ynseä jotakin kohtaan, kohdella jotakin ynseästi, kohdella jotakuta kylmäkiskoisesti, kohdella jotakuta yliolkaisesti
 * French: être en froid avec quelqu'un, battre froid à quelqu'un
 * German:
 * Japanese: 白い目で見る
 * Polish:, potraktować jak powietrze
 * Russian: оказа́ть холо́дный приём
 * Spanish: dar la espalda, hacer el vacío