on the carpet
Meaning
Under consideration; subject to discussion or deliberation.
Being reprimanded or carpeted.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgSynonyms
Examples
The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you.
My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things.
I am a bit in love with a new designer George Hobeika; I have worn him a couple of times on the carpet. Ralph Lauren is another one I really have fun with.
Decision-making based on emotional intuition, without the aid of reason to keep it in line, pretty much always sucks. You know who bases their entire lives on their emotions? Three-year-old kids. And dogs. You know what else three-year-olds and dogs do? Shit on the carpet.
On the carpet lay a pattern of markers, pebbles, an iron ring - junk. A random pattern. A crumpled sheet of paper blew towards Paradine. He picked it up automatically.
Pointing out that there's a turd lying on the carpet is not the same as shitting on the carpet.