shut down

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reject or deny

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Getting rejected by someone you like doesn’t feel good. Sometimes it might even feel like that person flipped a switch and shut you down. One minute you were excited and hopeful, and the next minute, everything turned dark.

Normally, we shut down machines by turning them off. When you leave work at night, you probably shut down your computer. But in the dating world, to shut someone down means something different. Imagine you’re at a bar, and a stranger comes up to you and offers to buy you a drink. Instead of answering him, you just give him a mean look and walk away. You just rejected that poor guy, or shut him down.

You’d expect a beautiful movie star like Cameron Diaz to shut guys down all the time. But she says she’s pretty open minded about dating. She won’t shut down anyone right away, unless he acts like a complete creep. So the next time you see Cameron, go ahead, ask her out!

Have you ever been shut down by someone you liked? Is there a nice way to shut someone down?

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“I thought Jaime liked Anna, so I was surprised when he shut her down.”

“Kelly doesn’t know how to shut people down without hurting their feelings.”

“I wouldn’t shut anyone down just based on looks.”

Winners

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	to reject someone, to reject an invitation by caandrade
	reject by xin7
	to shut down means to reject someone by monacovalentina
	shut down means to forbid or to cease by primula
	refuse by chomo
	shut down=say no to someone by nour_2
	I think it means turn down an offer. by Mr.Bean's wife
	refuse by Meshaa
	To shut down means ''to refuse, deny or stopped someone to do something'' by luu.-21
	stop some on before saying any thing or doing any thing by engm1
	hmmmm embarrassing someone by refusing his invetation by nono_cute
	maybe to blow someone off by Miss Talant
	Turn someone down by Seven Pounds
	keep someone on a distance, reject somebody? by jos235
	reject by Gellerke
	shut down here means, to refuse one's offer by kiri10
	refuse by angie.liu
	reject; deny by Bitten by an Arab bug

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