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What is another word for on the carpet?

Pronunciation: [ɒnðə kˈɑːpɪt] (IPA)

The phrase "on the carpet" has been widely used to describe individuals being reprimanded or held accountable for their actions. Some synonyms for this phrase include: in hot water, under scrutiny, called to account, taken to task, held responsible, in the hot seat, and facing the music. These expressions convey a variety of connotations depending on the context in which they are used. However, all these synonyms imply that an individual is being questioned or criticized for their behavior, and they may be about to face negative consequences for their actions. Whatever the synonym used, it is clear that someone is about to have a difficult conversation or receive some unwelcome feedback about their behavior.
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  • My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things.
    Jacqueline Bisset
  • Decision-making based on emotional intuition, without the aid of reason to keep it in line, pretty much always sucks. You know who bases their entire lives on their emotions? Three-year-old kids. And dogs. You know what else three-year-olds and dogs do? Shit on the carpet.
    Mark Manson
  • An orange on the table Your robe on the carpet And you in my bed Sweet present of the present Coolness of the night Warmth of my life.
    Jacques Prévert
  • His find he hid at the back of the closet in his own room upstairs. The crystal cube he slipped into his pocket, which already bulged with string, a coil of wire, two pennies, a wad of tinfoil, a grimy defenses stamp, and a chunk of feldspar. Emma, Scott's two-year-old sister, waddled unsteadily in from the hall and said hello. "Hello, Slug," Scott nodded, from his altitude of seven years and some months. He patronized Emma shockingly, but she didn't know the difference. Small, plump, and wide-eyed, she flopped down on the carpet and stared dolefully at her shoes. "Tie 'em, Scotty, please?" "Sap," Scott told her kindly, but knotted the laces.
    Lewis Padgett
  • Lunacy! But it had not been lunacy to Emma and Scott. They thought differently. They used x logic.He looked at the crazy pattern on the carpet. If he could follow it, as the kids had done —
    Lewis Padgett

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