Give the cold shoulder - in the past, an uninvited guest to a dinner will be given the meat of the lamb shoulder which is cold.
Pretzels-Monks will give them to children as a reward in the past, the pretzel looks like two hands praying
sacked- in the past when a toolman was sacked, he will be given a SACK to put his tools before leaving.
white elephants- in the past during the era of the siam kingdom, the king gave away his white elephants, they were of no use and still had to be taken care of.
hmm.. what about Kicked thge Habit? Someone got kicked in the butt?