rug
noun/rʌɡ/
Слово англійською: rug
Переклад rug українською: килимо́к
Детальний опис
- 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.
- (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.