参考词典中call on the carpet的常规释义:
英英解释
- censure severely or angrily
[同]
dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, take to task, trounce, chew out, chew up, chide
[例]
- The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
- The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
- The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
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