rug

tapis

Pièce de tissu épais posée sur une partie du sol.

En anglais simple : A thick piece of cloth that covers part of a floor.

• There is a rug beside my bed.
• We bought two rugs for the living room.
• Could you clean the rug by the door?

Synonymes : carpet

Expressions courantes : wool rug, rug on something, small rug

tirer brusquement

Tirer quelque chose avec force et brutalité, au risque de l’abîmer.

En anglais simple : To pull something hard and roughly, possibly damaging it.

• Do not rug the rope like that.
• He rugged at the cloth until it tore.
• She tried to rug the sack away.

Comment l'utiliser : rug at something (He began to rug at the tangled rope.)

Synonymes : tug, yank

Expressions courantes : rug something, rug at something