red carpet
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- noun
- /rɛd ˈkɑːrpɪt/
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- You're ready for the red carpet.
- walk the red carpet
- roll out red carpet
- red carpet premiere
Are they implying that last year's red carpet was what enraged Will Smith?
- Are they implying that last year's red carpet was what enraged Will Smith?
- We made sneaking on the Grammy red carpet video, which you can still watch on YouTube.
- I was walking on the red carpet
- So I went bra less on a red carpet.
- I don't normally wear lashes unless I'm on the red carpet.
- And like, you go there, you walk out the red carpet, you have all these conversations with people.
- So this is a clip of Jennifer Coolidge on a red carpet, and she lets slip her real voice.
- Timothy and Chalamet and Kylie Jenner made the red carpet debut.
- I use it maybe twice a week and before big red carpets so that I get that nice glow.
Examples
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They're waiting for us on the red carpet.
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I've been on a red carpet quite a few times.
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"See you on the red carpet."
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Then I walked the red carpet.
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A big crowd slowly makes its way along a red carpet to the party.
Fiction book (1992) -
Uh, you should be on the red carpet by 6:35.
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Bo shows his stuff on the red carpet for the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, October 14, 2012.
Blog text (16) -
Their footsteps were muffled by the strip of red carpet laid down the middle of the marble floor.
Fiction book (1999) -
I'm off to Hollywood to attend the red carpet premiere of the new Tim Burton movie, Frankenweenie.
Blog text (23) -
The actor stepped out on the red carpet for the premiere of the new film.
Surface Forms
Morphology
red + carpet
The literal meanings 'red' (a color) and 'carpet' (a floor covering) do not by themselves specify the idea of special treatment; a B1 learner who only knows the constituent words would likely think of a physically red carpet rather than honored hospitality. However, the phrase is partly motivated by the cultural practice of laying out a red carpet for important guests—this conventionalized association gives a hint of the idiomatic meaning but still requires cultural or contextual knowledge, so it is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Red carpet comes from the long red carpet that is rolled out at events for important people to walk on, so it names the actual strip of carpet used at formal ceremonies.