under the rug
Meaning
under the rug
(idiomatic, location) So as to be hidden from plain view (and thus easily ignored or overlooked).
Synonyms
Examples
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.
The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.
If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.
The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.