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call on the carpet en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (US) To reprimand; to censure severely or angrily.
    • Randal calls onto the carpet Heath and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler for her department's negligence in responding to the AIDS crisis. 1984 August 4, Sue Hyde, “Too Little, Too Late”, in Gay Community News, page 2:

Forms

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calling on the carpet Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
calls on the carpet Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
called on the carpet Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
called on the carpet Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

on the carpet · trip to the woodshed

Synonyms

rebuke (Synonyms for "call on the carpet") · call down (Synonyms for "call on the carpet") · berate (Synonyms for "call on the carpet") · have words (Synonyms for "call on the carpet") · reproof (Synonyms for "call on the carpet") · tell off (Synonyms for "call on the carpet") · reprimand (Synonyms for "call on the carpet") · lambaste (Synonyms for "call on the carpet") · carpet (Synonyms for "call on the carpet") · chew up (Synonyms for "call on the carpet") · chew out (Synonyms for "call on the carpet") · chide (Synonyms for "call on the carpet") · rag (Synonyms for "call on the carpet") · dress down (Synonyms for "call on the carpet") · bawl out (Synonyms for "call on the carpet") · trounce (Synonyms for "call on the carpet") · remonstrate (Synonyms for "call on the carpet") · jaw (Synonyms for "call on the carpet") · lecture (Synonyms for "call on the carpet") · scold (Synonyms for "call on the carpet")

Translations (5)

fr réprimander (reprimand) · ru вы́звать на ковёр (reprimand) · pl brać na dywanik (reprimand) · nl op het matje roepen (reprimand) · et vaibale kutsuma (reprimand)