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during class i got assigned "call you to the carpet" as an idiom. my teachers idiom book says it s origin is that in a royal kingdom they didn't put carpet in the servants' rooms because it was too expensive, so when they called them to discus something they were calling them to the carpet because the royalty had carpeted floors
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∙ 15y agoTo be called 'on the carpet', i.e. for reprimand by superior, is early 1900's, American colloquial, (possible), from one's uncarpeted work area to carpeted offices of one's superior.
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