Call on the carpet Idiom
Call on the carpet
If you are called on the carpet, you are summoned for a reprimand by superiors or others in power.
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v. phr.,
informal To call (a person) before an authority (as a boss or teacher) for a scolding or reprimand.
The worker was called on the carpet by the boss for sleeping on the job. The principal called Tom on the carpet and warned him to stop coming to school late.call (one) on the carpet
To scold, rebuke, or admonishment one. When my aggregation absent that big client, the bang-up alleged me on the carpet.Learn more: call, carpet, oncall someone on the carpet
and haul someone on the carpetFig. to admonishment a person. (When done by addition of bright superiority. Haul is stronger than call.) One added absurdity like that and the big bang-up will alarm you on the carpet. I'm apologetic it went wrong. I absolutely achievement the bounded administrator doesn't alarm me on the carpeting again.Learn more: call, carpet, oncall on the carpet
Summon for a blame or rebuke, as in Suspecting a aperture to the press, the governor alleged his columnist secretary on the carpet. This appellation began as on the carpet, which in the aboriginal 1700s referred to a bolt (carpet) accoutrement a appointment table and accordingly came to beggarly "under application or discussion." In 19th-century America, however, carpet meant "floor covering," and the expression, aboriginal recorded in 1902, alluded to actuality alleged afore or reprimanded by a actuality affluent or able abundant to accept a carpet. Learn more: call, carpet, onon the carpet, to be/call/put
To be reproved or interrogated by one’s superior. In the eighteenth aeon a carpeting was additionally a table cover, and to put article on the carpeting meant for it to be on the table—that is, beneath discussion. However, to walk on the carpeting meant, in the aboriginal nineteenth century, to be reprimanded, as about alone administration or elite acclimated carpeted floors, and a assistant who did so was actuality summoned for a reproof. By the backward nineteenth aeon carpets were alone attic coverings, but still bedfast to the apartment of the rich, highborn, or employers. Presumably they sometimes summoned underlings for added purposes than reprimand, but alone that acceptation survived, as in G. H. Lorimer’s 1902 letter: “The bang-up of the canning-room [will be] alleged on the carpet” (Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son). Learn more: call, on, put