If you're a very lazy housekeeper, you don't sweep up the dirt and put it into the trash can - you sweep it into a corner and cover it up with your carpet or rug! This means that something has not truly been dealt with, but only covered up.
to ignore something
to hide something and not talk about it.
It's sweep under the rug usually, and it means to pretend to get rid of something by trying to hide it instead of really getting rid of it. The image is of someone sweeping and instead of sweeping the dirt outside or into the trash, they cover it up with a rug.
Under Rug Swept was created on 2002-02-25.
Using a felt rug pad under a rug provides benefits such as added cushioning, noise reduction, increased durability for the rug, and protection for the floor underneath.
A 5x8 rug
do you mean rug as in carpet. These dimenstions are usually expressed is length x width, which is an area. There are also instances where a rug is expressed in terms of length x width x thickness, may be something to do with the manufacturing process
So the rug won't slide around.
The cast of Under The Rug - 2012 includes: David Sampson Harry Sanger as Boy
Rug.
it is under the rug in the stagger inn
The phrase "cutting a rug" was commonly used in the 1940s and 1950s to refer to dancing.