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CALL ON THE CARPET
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Censure severely or angrily
Example:
The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
Synonyms:
trounce; take to task; scold; reprimand; remonstrate; rebuke; rag; lecture; lambaste; lambast; jaw; have words; dress down; chide; chew up; chew out; call on the carpet; call down; berate; bawl out
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "call on the carpet" is one way to...):
criticise; criticize; knock; pick apart (find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "call on the carpet"):
castigate; chasten; chastise; correct; objurgate (censure severely)
brush down; tell off (reprimand)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
