carpeting
noun
[ ˈkɑːpɪtɪŋ ]
• carpets collectively.
• "offices with wall-to-wall carpeting"
• a severe reprimand.
• "I was called to her office for a carpeting"
carpet
verb
• cover with carpet.
• "the stairs were carpeted in a lovely shade of red"
• reprimand severely.
• "the Chancellor of the Exchequer carpeted the bank bosses"
Similar:
reprimand,
rebuke,
admonish,
chastise,
chide,
upbraid,
reprove,
reproach,
scold,
remonstrate with,
berate,
take to task,
pull up,
castigate,
lambast,
read someone the Riot Act,
lecture,
criticize,
censure,
haul over the coals,
tell off,
give someone a talking-to,
give someone a telling-off,
dress down,
give someone a dressing-down,
give someone an earful,
give someone a roasting,
give someone a rocket,
give someone a rollicking,
rap,
rap over the knuckles,
slap someone's wrist,
let someone have it,
bawl out,
give someone hell,
come down on,
blow up,
pitch into,
lay into,
lace into,
give someone a caning,
put on the mat,
slap down,
blast,
rag,
keelhaul,
tick off,
have a go at,
give someone a mouthful,
tear someone off a strip,
give someone what for,
give someone some stick,
wig,
give someone a wigging,
give someone a row,
row,
chew out,
ream out,
monster,
call down,
rate,
give someone a rating,
trim,
reprehend,
objurgate,
bollock,
give someone a bollocking,
tear someone a new arsehole,
rip someone a new arsehole,
chew someone's ass,
ream someone's ass,
tear someone a new asshole,
rip someone a new asshole,
Origin:
Middle English (denoting a thick fabric used as a cover for a table or bed): from Old French carpite or medieval Latin carpita, from obsolete Italian carpita ‘woollen counterpane’, based on Latin carpere ‘pluck, pull to pieces’.
