Idioms

call (someone) on the carpet
to call someone before an authority to be scolded or reprimanded
The salesman was called on the carpet by his boss for losing the big sale.

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  • call a meeting
  • call a meeting to order
  • call a spade a spade
  • call for (someone or something)
  • call for (someone)
  • call in (someone) or call (someone) in
  • call in (something) or call (something) in
  • call it a day
  • call it a night
  • call it quits
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  • a holy terror
  • red-letter day
  • thick
  • in heaven
  • hands down
  • step into the breach
  • check up on (someone or something)
  • blow up in (someone's) face
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