Carpet Baggers

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call on the carpet

Summon for a scolding or rebuke, as in Suspecting a leak to the press, the governor called his press secretary on the carpet. This term began as on the carpet, which in the early 1700s referred to a cloth (carpet) covering a conference table and therefore came to mean "under consideration or discussion." In 19th-century America, however, carpet meant "floor covering," and the expression, first recorded in 1902, alluded to being called before or reprimanded by a person rich or powerful enough to have a carpet."

But if you are rich enough to own a carpet, why would you want to have someone idiot stand all over it and get it dirty while you yell at them? Wouldn't you rather have them stand next to the carpet so they know how important you are?

Goin' Out of My Head

From www.yourdictionary.com:

"go out of one's mind idiom

Lose one's mental stability, become insane, as in After he heard that the ore he had mined was worthless, the prospector went out of his mind. This phrase is often used as a humorous exaggeration, as in I'm going out of my mind reading these proofs. The phrase out of one's mind dates from the late 1300s, and was used with go shortly thereafter. Also see lose one's mind."

Isn't it physically impossible to go out of one's mind? Your mind is your brain yes? Your brain is inside your head. Inside being the key word. I suppose if you were to have a lobotomy or be in some tragic accident where you head was cut open and your brain fell out, then perhaps you could be out of your mind. However, then you would also either be dead or need some serious surgery...and not necessarily crazy.