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Slapping the stupid out of a user	by joecrouse	2014-03-27 14:00:31
Did you get called on the carpet or...	by RetiQlum2	2014-03-27 14:07:33
'called on the carpet' ?	by Klaranth	2014-03-27 15:26:52
Reprimanded, often by a boss.	by vetitice	2014-03-27 15:49:17
I would be more worried if there was plastic	by Klaranth	2014-03-27 16:27:02
I believe the origin...	by firehawk	2014-03-27 21:43:04
Nope. Not even CLOSE. It IS the carpeted room	by wwill	2014-03-27 22:16:10
of the boss, or originally the Master or Mistress, and the servant (employee these days) is called in from the bare-floor areas where they work to the carpeted part of the place for a reprimand, or a demand that they explain their actions. It is dated to the mid-1800s by the "Oxford Dictionary of Idioms." The definition elaborates with the related idiom: "To be 'called on the carpet' is equivalent to receiving a scolding, the metaphor being taken from a servant called into the presence of the master or mistress from an uncarpeted into a carpeted room." No puppies or kitties were harmed in the making of this idiom.
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Then I have been mislead.	by firehawk	2014-03-27 22:17:14
Yeah, right. And that info and a couple bucks,	by wwill	2014-03-27 22:42:23

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