rug

noun

/rʌɡ/

Idioms

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a piece of thick material like a small carpet that is used for covering or decorating part of a floor
- a hearth rug (= in front of a fireplace)
- an oriental rug
- a sheepskin rug
- A Persian rug covered the polished floor.
- There were several brightly coloured rugs scattered around.
Topics Houses and homesb1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- hearth
- oriental
- Persian
- …
verb + rug
- make
- weave
rug + verb
- cover something
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(British English) a piece of thick warm material, like a blanket, that is used for wrapping around your legs to keep warm
- a travel rug
- a tartan rug
(informal, humorous) a toupee (= a small section of artificial hair, worn by a man to cover an area of his head where hair no longer grows)

Word Originmid 16th cent. (denoting a type of coarse woollen cloth): probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Norwegian dialect rugga ‘coverlet’, Swedish rugg ‘ruffled hair’; related to rag ‘piece of cloth’. The sense ‘small carpet’ dates from the early 19th cent.

Idioms

pull the rug (out) from under somebody’s feet

(informal) to take help or support away from somebody suddenly

sweep something under the rug (North American English)

(also sweep something under the carpet British and North American English)

to try to stop people from finding out about something wrong, illegal, embarrassing, etc. that has happened or that you have done
- An earlier report, implicating the government, had been conveniently swept under the rug.

单词	rug
释义	rug noun /rʌɡ/ /rʌɡ/ Idioms jump to other results enlarge image a piece of thick material like a small carpet that is used for covering or decorating part of a floor a hearth rug (= in front of a fireplace) an oriental rug a sheepskin rug A Persian rug covered the polished floor. There were several brightly coloured rugs scattered around. Topics Houses and homesb1 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective hearth oriental Persian … verb + rug make weave rug + verb cover something See full entry (British English) a piece of thick warm material, like a blanket, that is used for wrapping around your legs to keep warm a travel rug a tartan rug (informal, humorous) a toupee (= a small section of artificial hair, worn by a man to cover an area of his head where hair no longer grows) Word Originmid 16th cent. (denoting a type of coarse woollen cloth): probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Norwegian dialect rugga ‘coverlet’, Swedish rugg ‘ruffled hair’; related to rag ‘piece of cloth’. The sense ‘small carpet’ dates from the early 19th cent. Idioms pull the rug (out) from under somebody’s feet (informal) to take help or support away from somebody suddenly sweep something under the rug (North American English) (also sweep something under the carpet British and North American English) to try to stop people from finding out about something wrong, illegal, embarrassing, etc. that has happened or that you have done An earlier report, implicating the government, had been conveniently swept under the rug.
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