call on the carpet

Questions about call on the carpet

What does call on the carpet mean?

call on the carpet means "censure severely or angrily".

What is another word for call on the carpet?

Close synonyms include take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, lecture. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is call on the carpet a common word?

call on the carpet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.