rug-cutter

Definitions

Examples

• The “24-hour news cycle” just makes them harder to sweep under the rug and ignore.

• Then Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, made a bad batch of vaccine, and 40,000 children were sickened with polio.

• “I had to lie on a huge, fur rug and have a nightmare,” Prince Charles told his biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby.

• Or, to put it more accurately: conflict is inevitably swept under the rug, at any and all costs.

• A barefoot corpse in camouflaged khakis is being carried into the street, partially wrapped in rug, as I enter the house.

• The motherly woman received the babe instinctively and cast aside the travelling-rug in which he was enveloped.

• Though she was warmly wrapped in a soft rug of silvery fur, a chill crept into her heart.

• When Yung Pak ate his meals, he sat upon a rug on the floor with his father and such male guests as might be in the house.

• The cigar stump held firmly between his teeth, he stood on the rug before the hearth, facing the door.

• On the sheepskin rug before the fire a Manx cat was dozing beside a pair of carpet slippers.