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[ verb ] to conceal something in the hopes it won't be discovered by others

Examples

"The president tried to sweep the embarrassing incident under the rug"

Used in print

(Doris Miles Disney, Mrs. Meeker's Money....)

The whole_thing , his manner conveyed , was so far outside the normal routine of Hohlbein and Garth that it practically demanded being swept_under_the_rug .

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