Idioms With Carpet

Roll out the red carpet for someone sweep something under the carpet.

Idioms with carpet.

The phrase call on the carpet is primarily an american idiom that has its roots in an idiom popular in the eighteenth century though today s meaning of call on the carpet did not come into use until the nineteenth century. Carp 1 kärp intr v. See synonyms at quibble. Carp or carps 1.

Carp 2 kärp n. Pull the carpet rug out from under somebody s feet. Carped carp ing carps to complain or find fault in a petty or disagreeable way. This expression may refer to a piece of carpet in front of a desk where someone stands while being reprimanded.

An idiom is a word group of words or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is not easily deduced from its literal definition. On the carpet to be call put. Be on the carpet definition. Carped about the poor service at the restaurant.

A freshwater cyprinid fish cyprinus carpio native to eurasia. In my hospital if i allowed a nurse to work alongside me without wearing gloves i d be called on the carpet immediately for not protecting our staff. He was called on the carpet again for his carelessness. Pull the carpet out from under one s feet.

To be in trouble with someone in authority. Middle english carpen from old norse karpa to boast carp er n. You can also call someone on the carpet. Idioms for carpet on the carpet before an authority or superior for an accounting of one s actions or a reprimand.