English Explanatory Dictionary

call on the carpet

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To reprimand; to censure severely or angrily.

Word forms

call on the carpet calls on the carpet calling on the carpet called on the carpet

Synonyms

bawl out berate call down carpet chew out chew up chide dress down have words jaw lambaste lecture rag rebuke remonstrate reprimand reproof scold tell off trounce

Related words

on the carpet trip to the woodshed
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