on the carpet

Meaning

1. Editorial83% of films

   Physically on a carpet, the floor covering: a person or animal standing, lying, or moving there, or something placed, dropped, or left there.

   Get off my Grandmama's carpet! She don't like nobody on the carpet!

2. Oxford17% of films

   called to see sb in authority because you have done sth wrong

In the movies · 9

• You know, he's still wiping his ass on the carpet.Venom: Let There Be Carnage2021
• No, definitely not. Blood on the carpet.Deathtrap1982
• That's right. Get on the carpet.The Proposal2009
• Kids, on the carpet! Now!Cheaper by the Dozen2003
• ...and put him on the carpet.Kill Bill: Vol. 22004
• I would just sleep straight on the carpet.Free Solo2018
• Get off my Grandmama's carpet! She don't like nobody on the carpet!Transformers2007
• - On the carpet? - No, sir.Mary Reilly1996

Learn it in full scenes

• Deathtrap1982
  • Sidney's Play Flops on Opening Night
  • Sidney Rants About Being Written Out
  • Sidney Plots to Steal a Play
• The Proposal2009
  • Margaret Fires Bob
  • Margaret Announces a Fake Engagement
  • Margaret Fakes a Marriage Interview

From the same entry

• sweep under the carpet