COMMON IDIOM-05 | CALL ON THE CARPET

CALL ON THE CARPET

”Call someone on the carpet,” which means “to call someone before an authority to be scolded or reprimanded.” অর্থাৎ কাউকে তিরস্কার করার জন্য ডেকে আনা বুঝাতে এই idiom টি ব্যবহার করা হয়। বিশেষ করে সম্মান, বয়স, এবং পদে বড় এমন কেউ তার অধিনস্ত কাউকে কোন বিষয় বকাঝকা করার জন্য ডেকে আনা অর্থে ‘CALL ON THE CARPET’ diom টি ব্যবহার  হয়ে থাকে।

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☑ Example Sentences

1. One more error like that and the big boss will call you on the carpet.
2. When my team lost that big client, the boss called me on the carpet.
3. He was called on the carpet for being late to work
4. My mother called me on the carpet as I had broken glass.
5. I hope he wouldn’t be called on the carpet by the boss.
6. My English teacher called me on the carpet today because I failed the last exam.
7. He was called on the carpet for being very insincere.
8. When my team lost that big client, the boss called me on the carpet.
9. she might have called the accused person on the carpet
10. Mr Momem was called on the carpet to explain his excessive spending.
11. As I broke the glass, I was called on the carpet by my mom.

♜ORIGIN OF THIS IDIOM:

This term began as on the carpet, which in the early 1700s referred to a cloth (carpet) covering a conference table and therefore came to mean “under consideration or discussion.” In 19th-century America, however, carpet meant “floor covering,” and the expression, first recorded in 1902, alluded to being called before or reprimanded by a person rich or powerful enough to have a carpet.

The actual phrase “call on the carpet” is an idiom with its usage limited primarily to the United States. To describe a similar reprimand in Britain was once referred to as simply “carpeting” someone. This meaning of the word has fallen into disuse and is rarely heard in modern British spoken or written language.

There are a couple of theories about the origins of the phrase. There doesn’t seem to be a consensus on which is correct. The most common explanation of the phrase’s history describes an interaction between a master and a servant. The servant’s work would primarily be conducted in uncarpeted rooms, while the master’s quarters and living area would be carpeted. The servant received a literal “call on the carpet” and was summoned to the master’s carpeted area of the home to be reprimanded, giving the idiom its meaning of a scolding.

What’s an Idiom?

Broadly speaking, an idiom is a widely used phrase that, when taken as a whole, has a particular meaning that you would not be able to deduce from the meanings of the individual words. The ubiquitous greeting “How are you doing today?” is an example of an idiom. Normally, how means “in what manner” or “to what degree.” Taken literally, the question doesn’t make a lot of sense. But fluent English speakers understand the idiomatic meaning; “How are you doing today?” usually just means “hello.”

Prepared by-
FAYSAL KHAN (FK)
BA, (Hons), MA; English (ELT)
Founder and CET, FKENGLISH
ইংরেজি শিক্ষক এবং কনটেন্ট রাইটার,
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