red carpet
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See also: red-carpet
English
Noun
red carpet (plural red carpets)
- A strip of red carpet that is laid for a VIP to walk on.
- 2012, Simon Packham, The Bex Factor:
- I've been gunged on children's TV, hung out with some actors off that soap Dad used to watch, done a photoshoot for a major highstreet fashion outlet and now here we are on the red carpet, outside the cinema in Leicester Square […]
- 2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London):
- This time, the actor was in uncomfortably touchy-feely form. First he sidled up behind Scarlett Johansson as she posed on the red carpet, kissed her, and slid his hand around her waist.
- (figurative) VIP treatment.
Translations
a strip of red carpet laid for a VIP
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VIP treatment
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