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What does to be on the carpet mean?

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10y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

If you are called on the carpet, you are brought to face the consequences of your actions publicly, usually before your superior or superiors. The image is of the lowly worker (who used to work in bare offices with wood floors and no comfy rugs or carpet) being called into the boss' office, where there was lush carpeting. If you found yourself there, you were either in for a raise or for a scolding, and this idiom means the latter.

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