under the carpet Idiom, Proverb

sweep under the carpet

hide problems, cover mistakes Don't sweep your problems under the carpet. Try to solve them.

sweep sth under the carpet

Idiom(s): sweep something under the carpet AND sweep something under the rug

Theme: DECEPTION

to try to hide something unpleasant, shameful, etc., from the attention of others.
• The boss said he couldn't sweep the theft under the carpet, that he'd have to call in the police.
• Roger had a tendency to sweep all the problems under the rug.

Brush under the carpet

If you brush something under the carpet, you are making an attempt to ignore it, or hide it from others.

Sweep things under the carpet

If people try to ignore unpleasant things and forget about them, they sweep them under the carpet.

under the carpet

Kept abstruse or hidden from view, usually due to one's accident or embarrassment. The byword is about acclimated with the verbs "sweep" and "brush," likened to how clay would be swept beneath a carpeting to agilely adumbrate it. We charge to ambit this aspersion beneath the carpeting as anon as possible. I was so ashamed by my aberration that I anon approved to besom it beneath the carpet.Learn more: carpet

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