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词汇 carpet
释义
carpet
noun
1
a three month period of imprisonment. A shortening of 'carpet bag' rhyming slang for 'drag' an obsolete term for 'a three month sentence'; this origin is now mainly forgotten; therefore it has since been reasoned that 'carpet' is so-called because it easy to do UK, 1903.
2
a three year sentence of imprisonment UK, 1956.
3
in betting, odds of 3–1 UK, 1967.
4
a sum of £3 UK, 1954.
5
three hundred pounds, £300. Ticket-touting slang. Also spelled 'carpits' UK, 2002.
6
an artificial grass playing surface US, 1978. clean the carpet(of a female) to masturbate US, 2001. matching carpet and drapes; carpet and drapes that matchapplied to a person, usually a woman, whose hair is neither bleached nor dyed. A jocular suggestion that the hair on the head is of the same natural shade as the pubic hair US, 1999
idiomcarpetcall 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.roll out the red carpet (for sb)(also lay out the red carpet)to give a lot of special attention to someone who is visiting you, usually someone important or famous, in order to show that you honour and respect them:China welcomed the visit, and rolled out the red carpet for Nixon and his team.I hadn't expected the red carpet to be laid out for me, but I did think I might be congratulated on what I had done.red-carpet: The red-carpet treatment given to Mandela is a good omen for the new South Africa.sweep sth under the carpet(also sweep sth under the rug AmE)(or brush sth under the carpet BrE)to ignore a problem in your organization or group, especially something wrong that someone has done, and try to stop people from finding out about it:Racial discrimination should always be exposed, not swept under the carpet.The university has been sweeping the high failure rate of their English Language students under the rug.
See:
  • a magic carpet
  • be on the carpet
  • blood on the carpet
  • brush (something) under the carpet
  • call (one) on the carpet
  • call on the carpet
  • drug on the market
  • laugh at the carpet
  • magic carpet
  • on the carpet
  • on the carpet, to be/call/put
  • pull the carpet (out) from under (one's) feet
  • pull the carpet/rug out from under somebody's feet
  • put out the red carpet (for someone)
  • red carpet
  • red-carpet treatment
  • red-carpet treatment, the
  • roll out the red carpet
  • roll out the red carpet (for someone)
  • sweep (something) under the carpet
  • sweep something under the carpet
  • sweep under the carpet
  • sweep/brush something under the carpet
  • the red carpet
  • the red carpet treatment
  • under the carpet
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