2023年3月12日 星期日

roll up, brush up, to carpet, red carpet, carpetbagger, subdued, pull the rug (out) from under, brushing uncomfortable facts and even immense tragedies under the rug


Fantasy baseball advice is everywhere, and ChatGPT has access to plenty of it. So what happened when Athletic editors asked the A.I. chatbot a series of basic fantasy questions? Let’s just say the tool has some brushing up to do.




Opinion: "China has managed many times in the past to simply move on, brushing uncomfortable facts and even immense tragedies under the rug, and changing the topic of conversation. But there is still a great deal of anger being directed toward leaders, judging from activity on social media...," writes David Bandurski.How do you ensure a story has a fairy tale ending? You write the ending yourself of course. In recent days, official state media in China have celebrated the publication of A Battle Against Epidemic: China Combatting Covid-19 in 2020, a bo that compiles writing by official state media to paint a por...

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Energy policy is best addressed across Europe as a whole. If the grids were linked up properly, in a large integrated energy market, then the peaks and troughs would be likely to even out. Rather than carpet grey Germany in solar panels, better to install them in sun-kissed Greece. But full integration is far off http://econ.st/15C5GGx
Pat McGowan, director of engineering at Canonical, demonstrated Ubuntu for phones at an event on MIT’s campus last week. While BlackBerry carpeted several basketball courts for an extravagant Manhattan launch of its new BB10 software the same week (see “BlackBerry’s New Phones Score Points”), Ubuntu’s public debut was more subdued.





1872 cartoon depiction of Carl Schurz as a Carpetbagger




U.S. Rolls Up Red Carpet for Karzai’s Political Rival
By HELENE COOPER and MARK LANDLER
Abdullah Abdullah is getting none of the V.I.P. treatment accorded to his rival, the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, during a visit to a Washington wary of antagonizing Mr. Karzai.


brush up
phrasal verb of brush
  1. improve one's existing knowledge or skill in a particular area.
    "these private lessons will give them a chance to brush up on their technique"


pull the rug (out) from under



Virginia Woolf published "Mrs Dalloway" on May 14th 1925, under the name of her own publishing house Hogarth Press. It freed her to produce work without having to bend to the whims of others; in a marginal note in an early draft of the novel, Woolf declares: "I will write anything I want to write"



Woolf delights in pulling the rug from under readers' feet
Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway" was published on this day in 1925
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pull the rug (out) from under

Abruptly withdraw support from (someone):the debts of major companies are too large for the banks to pull the rug
More example sentences
  • More importantly, though, Russell's narrative pulls the rug from under us, changing our perceptions of all three characters.
  • But yesterday he effectively pulled the rug from under them by introducing 19 per cent corporation tax levy on those profits.
  • In both countries, it was the external patron whom the local regimes had relied on for protection that pulled the rug from under them.
roll up
1. Accumulate, as in He rolled up a fortune in commodity trading, or She rolled up a huge number of votes in this district. [Mid-1800s]
2. Arrive in a vehicle, as in They rolled up in a taxi at exactly eight o'clock.

1. The move from one option position to another with a higher exercise price.

2. In the context of venture capital, when a VC forces small companies to merge in order to reduce costs.

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In United States history, carpet bagger was a pejorative term Southerners gave to Northerners (also referred to as Yankees) who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era, between 1865 and 1877.
The term referred to the observation that these newcomers tended to carry "carpet bags," a common form of luggage at the time (sturdy and made from used carpet). It was used as a derogatory term, suggesting opportunism and exploitation by the outsiders. Together with Republicans they are said to have politically manipulated and controlled former Confederate states for varying periods for their own financial and power gains. In sum, carpetbaggers were seen as insidious Northern outsiders with questionable objectives meddling in local politics, buying up plantations at fire-sale prices and taking advantage of Southerners. Carpetbagger is not to be confused with copperhead, which is a term given to a person from the North who sympathized with the Southern claim of right to Secession.
The term carpetbaggers was also used to describe the Republican political appointees who came South, arriving with their travel carpet bags. Southerners considered them ready to loot and plunder the defeated South.[1]
In modern usage in the U.S., the term is sometimes used derisively to refer to a politician who runs for public office in an area where he or she does not have deep community ties, or has lived only for a short time. In the United Kingdom, the term was adopted to refer informally to those who join a mutual organization, such as a building society, in order to force it to demutualize, that is, to convert into a joint stock company, solely for personal financial gain.




carpet


 noun
  • a floor or stair covering made from thick woven fabric, typically shaped to fit a particular room:the house has wall-to-wall carpets throughout the floor was covered with carpet
  • a large rug, typically an oriental one:priceless Persian carpets
  • a thick or soft expanse or layer of something:carpets of snowdrops and crocuses
  • informal, chiefly US a carpetlike artificial playing surface on a tennis court or an athletic field.

verb (carpets, carpeting, carpeted)

[with object]
  • 1cover (a floor or stairs) with a carpet:the stairs were carpeted in a lovely shade of red
  • cover with a thick or soft expanse or layer of something:the meadows are carpeted with flowers
2British informal reprimand severely.
音節
car • pet
発音
kɑ'ːrpit
carpetの変化形
carpets (複数形) • carpeted (過去形) • carpeted (過去分詞) • carpeting (現在分詞) • carpets (三人称単数現在)
carpetの慣用句
on the carpet, pull the carpet from under a person's feet, sweep ... under the carpet, （全4件）
[名]
1 [U][C]じゅうたん（地）, カーペット, もうせん. ⇒RUG
a Persian carpet
ペルシアじゅうたん
lay ［put down］ a carpet
じゅうたんを敷く.
2 ((文))（草花などの）一面の広がり((of ...))
a carpet of moss
一面のこけ.
3 ＝carpet bombing.
on the carpet
(1) ((英))〈事・議題が〉考慮中で, 審議中で.
(2) ((略式))（叱責(しっせき)のために）呼びつけられて；油をしぼられて
be called ［put］ on the carpet
呼びつけられてしかられる.
pull the carpet from under a person's feet
〈人に対する〉援助［指示］を突然中止する.
sweep ［push］ ... under the carpet
((略式))＝sweep ... under the RUG.
walk the carpet
〈召し使いが〉叱責を受ける.
━━[動](他)
1 ((通例受身))…をじゅうたんでおおう, にじゅうたんを敷く；…を（…で）一面におおう((with ...))
a carpeted corridor
じゅうたんを敷いた廊下
The field was quickly carpeted with weeds.
畑はたちまち雑草でおおわれた.
2 ((主に受身))((主に英略式))…を（呼びつけて）しかる.
［後ラテン語carpeta（carpereわかつ＋-ta過去分詞語尾＝わかれたもの→すいて, けばだてされた羊毛）］
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