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n. 小块地毯, 揭露某人



    rug
    [ noun ]
    floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)
    <noun.artifact>


    Rug \Rug\, n. [Cf. Sw. rugg entanglend hair, ruggig rugged,
    shaggy, probably akin to E. rough. See {Rough}, a.]
    1. A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for
    garments.

    They spin the choicest rug in Ireland. A friend of
    mine . . . repaired to Paris Garden clad in one of
    these Waterford rugs. The mastiffs, . . . deeming he
    had been a bear, would fain have baited him.
    --Holinshed.

    2. A piece of thick, nappy fabric, commonly made of wool, --
    used for various purposes, as for covering and ornamenting
    part of a bare floor, for hanging in a doorway as a
    poti[`e]re, for protecting a portion of carpet, for a wrap
    to protect the legs from cold, etc.

    3. A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.

    {Rug gown}, a gown made of rug, of or coarse, shaggy cloth.
    --B. Johnson.


    Rug \Rug\, v. t.
    To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
    [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.

    1. Furniture, plants and a rug had been moved around and there were dirty dishes in the sink, he said.
    2. He doesn't shed, smell or claw the furniture, and prefers a tidy litterbox to the living room rug.
    3. "The dog found a quarter-ounce of coke in gram bags in a slit under his rug," said Gene Panella, who trained 2-year-old Corky to locate even minute amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin at $250 a sniff.
    4. The corporation also began building several dozen homes for its employees and donated a new bearskin rug for the council chambers.
    5. Berube said he had been trying to retrieve an old rug from the garbage bin for a friend who wanted it to line a doghouse.
    6. "The freely elected parliament cannot sweep the `Stasi affairs' under the rug without seriously damaging the young democracy," Ehmke said.
    7. Although the museum refuses to reveal the price of the rug, which was purchased through the Roscoe and Margaret Oakes Income Fund, Ms. Cootner says, "It was a lot of money for a rug, but far less than a fine painting would have cost."
    8. Although the museum refuses to reveal the price of the rug, which was purchased through the Roscoe and Margaret Oakes Income Fund, Ms. Cootner says, "It was a lot of money for a rug, but far less than a fine painting would have cost."
    9. A handmade rug, two years in the design and making and purchased by an anonymous donor for $49,625 at the request of Nancy Reagan, has been installed in the Oval Office of the White House, it was announced Monday.
    10. Auto insurers "who have pulled the rug out from under Pennsylvania motorists should not be doing other new business in the state," said State Senator Stewart J. Greenleaf, one of the two sponsors of the new bill.
    11. It was replaced by an oval rug measuring 30 feet, 10 inches long by 23 feet, 5 inches wide.
    12. Mr Winston Churchill, one of the group, said the result had pulled the rug from under the potential Tory rebels. Mr Heseltine said: 'The reason we have a problem today is that very large numbers of customers have chosen to change their source of energy.
    13. "The Iranians would bring a small silk rug or two to sell in Syria.
    14. Never put a house plant or flower pot on the rug.
    15. Intensifying his drive for upgrading U.S. strategic forces, Bush told congressional leaders "don't pull the rug out from under us" on the two-missile plan, according to presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater.
    16. In previous years the topic has been swept under the rug.
    17. Kyprianou had the rug pulled from under him two weeks before the election, when Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, who for years refused to negotiate with Turkey, changed his mind.
    18. "They pulled the rug out from under us," he said.
    19. A stalk was provided to prop the cargo rug up out of the way as you reached for the spare tire.
    20. Its head and feet make for startling trophies; its hide can be used as a rug or wall-hanging; claws can become part of a necklace.
    21. He is reported preparing to pull the rug out from under one of Brazil's most influential clergymen, the outspoken and highly progressive archbishop of the city of Sao Paulo, Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns.
    22. "If we are successful, the rug is likely to be pulled out from under us," he said.
    23. Setting up headquarters in a phony rug store called Karpetland, Stone starts hatching his plans to destabilize the Soviet Union, using prep school pranks and infiltrators.
    24. The first lady had worked with the White House curator and White House Historical Association to design the rug and get a donor.
    25. He orchestrated negotiations between Israel and Lebanon for a peace agreement in 1983, only to have the rug pulled from under him by Gemayel's abdication of the agreement soon after it was signed.
    26. It puts Mr. Potapov above the fray without making him seem unhappy about having had the rug swept from under him.
    27. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said the issue of the 16 American and European hostages held in Lebanon by shadowy Shiite Moslem groups had been "swept under the rug" for a long time, until Israel revived it with the Obeid abduction.
    28. If you do not have the courage to go the whole hog, you could start experimenting with some tartan ceramics, a cushion, or the odd rug or two to fling over a sofa.
    29. No longer could the structural imbalance in the budget be swept under the rug of economic growth.
    30. The alarm is tripped when unsuspecting parents step on air tubes placed underneath a rug outside the door.
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