Tennessee Williamsの戯曲 "a streetcar named desire" からの引用です。
STANLEY:
The boy's dad learned about it and got in touch with the high school superintendent. Boy, oh, boy, I'd like to have been in that office when Dame Blanche was called on the carpet! I'd like to have seen her trying to squirm out of that one! But they had her on the hook good and proper that time and she knew that the jig was all up! They told her she better move on to some fresh territory. Yep, it was practickly a town ordinance passed against her!
慣用句の連発ですね。"call on the carpet", "on the hook", "jig is all up" を順番に辞書で調べます。
"call on the carpet":
・Farlex Dictionary of Idioms: To scold, rebuke, or reprimand someone.: When my team lost that big client, the boss called me on the carpet.
・Merriam-Webster: to criticize (someone) for doing something wrong: He was/got called on the carpet for missing the deadline.
"on the hook":
・Vocabulary.com: To be on the hook is to be caught in a bad situation or to owe money. When you’re on the hook, you’re in a tight spot. If you're on the hook for your half of lunch, you better pay up!
・Collins Dictionary: in a dangerous or difficult situation
"jig is all up" の項目は見つかりませんでしたが、 "jig is up" で辞書に説明がありました。:
・Oxford English Dictionary: The scheme or deception is revealed or foiled.: the 'jig is up; you've had your last chance’
・Wiktionary: An expression used to mean "We have been caught out and have no defense", or if spoken to a person who has just been found out as the perpetrator of an offense, where it means "You've been discovered": The universe works in strange ways: just when you think the jig is up, you get a second chance.
・Farlex Dictionary of Idioms: One's plan or scheme has been discovered and/or thwarted; one's game, trick, or deception is at an end. A variant of the much more common phrase "the jig is up.": Your jig is up, Senator Marten! Your tax evasion has been found out, and the police are here to escort you to prison.
STANLEY:
The boy's dad learned about it and got in touch with the high school superintendent. Boy, oh, boy, I'd like to have been in that office when Dame Blanche was called on the carpet! I'd like to have seen her trying to squirm out of that one! But they had her on the hook good and proper that time and she knew that the jig was all up! They told her she better move on to some fresh territory. Yep, it was practickly a town ordinance passed against her!
慣用句の連発ですね。"call on the carpet", "on the hook", "jig is all up" を順番に辞書で調べます。
"call on the carpet":
・Farlex Dictionary of Idioms: To scold, rebuke, or reprimand someone.: When my team lost that big client, the boss called me on the carpet.
・Merriam-Webster: to criticize (someone) for doing something wrong: He was/got called on the carpet for missing the deadline.
"on the hook":
・Vocabulary.com: To be on the hook is to be caught in a bad situation or to owe money. When you’re on the hook, you’re in a tight spot. If you're on the hook for your half of lunch, you better pay up!
・Collins Dictionary: in a dangerous or difficult situation
"jig is all up" の項目は見つかりませんでしたが、 "jig is up" で辞書に説明がありました。:
・Oxford English Dictionary: The scheme or deception is revealed or foiled.: the 'jig is up; you've had your last chance’
・Wiktionary: An expression used to mean "We have been caught out and have no defense", or if spoken to a person who has just been found out as the perpetrator of an offense, where it means "You've been discovered": The universe works in strange ways: just when you think the jig is up, you get a second chance.
・Farlex Dictionary of Idioms: One's plan or scheme has been discovered and/or thwarted; one's game, trick, or deception is at an end. A variant of the much more common phrase "the jig is up.": Your jig is up, Senator Marten! Your tax evasion has been found out, and the police are here to escort you to prison.
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