cut a rug
To dance, especially in a vigorous manner and in one of the dance styles of the first half of the twentieth century.
Young-generation patrons seem to be as fascinated watching the more mature dancers cut a rug.
rug
/ɹʌɡ/
noun 6verb 3
Collocations
6(noun.)
ADJ
threadbare | bedside, fireside, hearth, picnic | oriental, Persian
VERB + RUG
make, weave
scatter, spread
She spread a thick woollen rug across the living room floor before the guests arrived.
RUG + VERB
cover sth
The thick wool rug covered most of the living room floor.
Definitions
noun
1
A partial covering for a floor.
2
A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket.
They then cut down a quantity of gum-tree leaves for a bed, and threw their rugs upon them ready for bed-time.
Furnish every sleeping apartment with a sufficient number of toilet utensils and bedsteads, and sufficient bedding so that each bed shall be provided with a mattress, two sheets, a rug, and, in winter time, not less than one additional rug.
3
A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing.
They spin the choicest rug in Ireland. A friend of mine […] repaired to Paris Garden clad in one of these Waterford rugs.
4
A cloak or mantle made of such a frieze.
5
A person wearing a rug.
verb
1
To cover with a rug.
It stands to reason that because of the difference in climate the necessity for rugging a horse in Australia would vary considerably from that in cold countries like England […]
2
To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
“this was a job in the auld times o'rugging and riving through the hale country[…]”
3
Clipping of rug pull
noun
1
short form of Rugbeian
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
sweep something under the rug
To conceal a problem (usually an embarrassing or illegal one) expediently, rather than remedy it thoroughly.
Near-synonyms: cover (sth.) up, draw a veil over (sth.)
under the rug
Synonym of under the carpet.
Before you burn a disc — or, for that matter, every couple of days — running your computer's disk diagnostics program takes care of anything hiding under the rug.
pull the rug out from under
To suddenly remove support from.
But his organisation has been knocked off course by unexpected events: an economic downturn and 'austerity'... the Croydon tram crash... Brexit... and now a global pandemic that ha
Example Bank
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They then cut down a quantity of gum-tree leaves for a bed, and threw their rugs upon them ready for bed-time.
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Furnish every sleeping apartment with a sufficient number of toilet utensils and bedsteads, and sufficient bedding so that each bed shall be provided with a mattress, two sheets, a rug, and, in winter
Wiktionary03
1950 April, Dental Journal of Australia, Volume 22, page 181, My own son had a bunny rug of which he was very fond and on being put to bed he would always demand his “bunny rug to suck his finger with
Wiktionary04
It stands to reason that because of the difference in climate the necessity for rugging a horse in Australia would vary considerably from that in cold countries like England […]
Wiktionary05
“this was a job in the auld times o'rugging and riving through the hale country[…]”
Wiktionary06
I put down a rug under my desk.
Tatoeba · #20591Usage Notes
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In some senses, rug is marked as archaic, obsolete, slang, UK, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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