What does sweep something under the carpet mean?

sweep something under the carpet

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English

Syllables: sweep- -some-thing un-der the -car-pet
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verb

Synonym of sweep something under the rug.

Example Sentences

"1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I've been struggling with what I am now for 6 years—and it's time to stop sweeping the issue under the carpet"

Inflected Forms

sweeps something under the carpet (present, singular) sweeping something under the carpet (participle, present) swept something under the carpet (participle, past) swept something under the carpet (past)

Synonyms

sweep something under the rug

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