英语词汇on the carpet的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	on the carpet
词源	on the carpet. When carpets first were used as floor cover- ings they were walked on only by the master or mistress of the house, and servants usually stood on them only when they were called before the gentry to be reprimanded for some mis- deed. From this practice, dating to the early 1800s, came the meaning of on the carpet.
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