what does it mean to send someone to coventry
Send to Coventry To send someone to Coventry is an English idiom meaning to deliberately ostracise someone. Typically, this is done by not talking to them, avoiding their company, and acting as if they no longer exist. Victims are treated as though they are completely invisible and inaudible. The Coventry in the phrase is the cathedral city in the West Midlands.
Humphrey Goodman During the fifth season, a running sub-plot involved Goodman attempting to get back into the dating game, but his results were various degrees of failure until he ran into Martha, a woman who once ran a sandwich shop he frequented when he worked in London, in the season finale. In the sixth season, Martha returns to the island for a few weeks, but while she and Goodman enjoy their time together, she eventually returns to London to start her dream job at a new restaurant. When a subsequent case sends Goodman and his team to London to track their suspects, he is inspired to stay with Martha, nominating the recently widowed DI Jack Mooney- the team's London liaison for their latest case- as his successor in Saint Marie.