| 词汇 | be-on-the-carpet |
| 释义 | be on the carpetidiommainly US to be in trouble with a person or organization in authority: 被上司责备，受老板训斥 The school is on the carpet for failing to discipline a teacher who hit a student. Chastising & rebuking admonishing admonishingly admonitory barracking bawl coal earbashing keelhaul lambaste lecture pull someone up punchbag punching bag put someone in their placeidiom rap someone over the knucklesidiom shame spoken tear ticking-off wigging His collections had been falling off already, and he knew that he'd be on the carpet for that, if he didn't do better. |
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