Rug Phrases

Phrases

• 1001 Cleans a Big, Big Carpet for Less than Half a Crown (1001 advertising slogan)
• A magic carpet
• As snug as a bug in a rug
• Behind the curtain
• Big wig
• Blood on the carpet
• Called on the carpet
• Carpet bombing
• Curtain call
• Curtain climber
• Curtain raiser
• Cut a rug
• Haul up on the carpet
• He lies like a rug
• Keep your wig on
• Magic carpet ride
• On the carpet
• Pull the rug from under your feet
• Red carpet treatment
• Ring down the curtain
• Roll out the red carpet
• Rug rat
• Sweep it under the carpet
• Syrup (Cockney rhyming slang for wig)
• The Bamboo Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist China)
• The Iron Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist states)
• The cat sat on the mat
• The red carpet
• Wig out