"Sweep under the rug" nghĩa là gì?

Sand mandala, Tibetan monk, sweeping the remains. Photo courtesy Quinn Dombrowski.

'Sweep under the rug' = dấu bụi dưới thảm -> nghĩa là che dấu một cái gì xấu hay sai lầm.

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Our team lost so many matches last season, it was a disaster (đại họa). We could have swept it under the rug. But instead of ignoring (bỏ qua) it, we learned from the mistakes we made in order to do better.

At first, President Nixon, whose party (đảng chính trị) was responsible for the crime, tried to sweep it under the rug. But newspaper reporters investigated (điều tra) the story which led to hearings (điều trần) and eventually the president’s resignation (từ chức).

Upton serves as vice chair of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, which on Tuesday he said "pushed the envelope to get things done, taking on some complex and often-controversial issues that others may want to just sweep under the rug."

"They're both extremely traumatized (bị chấn thương), to say the least. This is not something we're going to let them sweep under the rug," Blake told WGCL. "Especially as a Black woman, for her to do that is extremely heinous (cực kỳ tàn ác) because she herself should understand what it means to call police on Black youth in America."

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