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idiomcall sb on the carpet AmEAmEif someone in authority calls you on the carpet, they criticize or blame you for doing something wrong:Every time one of the players does something wrong, the coach is the one who gets called on the carpet for it.The bus driver, Greg Towns, says his boss shouldn't have called him on the carpet for using a company fire extinguisher to put out a fire in a van, stopped on the road.
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