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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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Carpet roll
Hi,
"Ed ought get [ sic! ] back to selling carpet roll remnants on the doors." [From The Independent.]
What does the phrase "carpet roll" mean in the sentence? Is it a bread roll filled with cheese, meat, vegetables, etc. or a piece of carpet rolled into the shape of a tube?
Thank you.
"Ed ought get [ sic! ] back to selling carpet roll remnants on the doors." [From The Independent.]
What does the phrase "carpet roll" mean in the sentence? Is it a bread roll filled with cheese, meat, vegetables, etc. or a piece of carpet rolled into the shape of a tube?
Thank you.
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Hi, "Ed ought get [ sic! ] What does the phrase "carpet roll" mean in the sentence? Is it a bread roll filled with cheese, meat, vegetables, etc.
- Hi, "Ed ought get [ sic!
- ] What does the phrase "carpet roll" mean in the sentence?
- Is it a bread roll filled with cheese, meat, vegetables, etc.
- or a piece of carpet rolled into the shape of a tube?
- The latter.
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Hi,
"Ed ought get [ sic! ] back to selling carpet roll remnants on the doors." [From The Independent.]
What does the phrase "carpet roll" mean in the sentence? Is it a bread roll filled with cheese, meat, vegetables, etc. or a piece of carpet rolled into the shape of a tube? The latter. I've never encountered
"Ed ought get [ sic! ] back to selling carpet roll remnants on the doors." [From The Independent.]
What does the phrase "carpet roll" mean in the sentence? Is it a bread roll filled with cheese, meat, vegetables, etc. or a piece of carpet rolled into the shape of a tube? The latter. I've never encountered
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Thank you, Clive, for your useful reply. There's no context here; it's a reader's comment on the newspaper article. I think that "on the doors" means that Ed worked as a kind of travelling salesman.
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Hi,
Maybe. I haven't heard that.
A common expression for that kind of thing is to sell 'on the doorstep'. It means going from one person's house to another person's house, etc., and trying to sell at the person's front door.
Cli
Maybe. I haven't heard that.
A common expression for that kind of thing is to sell 'on the doorstep'. It means going from one person's house to another person's house, etc., and trying to sell at the person's front door.
Cli
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