APAD: I wouldn't give him the time of day.

Meaning:

The person is unimportant to me/I treat him with contempt

 

Background:

It appears that this expression originated some time in the mid-twentieth

century. It can be found in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mocking Bird (1960): "Mr

Ewell seemed determined not to give the defense the time of day."

 

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Classics try my patience, I found over the years, and never finished the famous

novel. I'll give it another go, someday. Meanwhile, it's good to learn the quote.

Now I can play with a longer and less pointed version of "snub" or "ignore" when

they are called for which sounds like a line from a Clint Eastwood movie.

 

Taleb must have many that he wouldn't give the time of day to, maybe even

including the author of To Kill A Mocking Bird, as he said

 

   Read nothing from the past one hundred years; eat no fruits from the past one

   thousand years; drink nothing from the past four thousand years (just wine

   and water); but talk to no ordinary man over forty. A man without a heroic

   bent starts dying at the age of thirty.