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call someone on the carpet and haul someone on the carpet

Fig. to reprimand a person. (When done by someone of clear superiority. Haul is stronger than call.) One more error like that and the big boss will call you on the carpet. I'm sorry it went wrong. I really hope the regional manager doesn't call me on the carpet again.

See also: call, carpet

haul someone or something over to something

to drag someone or something over to something. (Fixed order.) She hauled the boy over to the mess he made and forced him to clean it up. Ken hauled the logs over to the fireplace and laid the fire.

haul someone (up) before someone or something

Fig. to bring someone into the presence of someone or something, usually some officer of the law. The officer hauled the suspect up before the judge. She hauled up the suspect before the judge.

See also: before

haul someone in

Fig. to arrest someone; [for a police officer] to take someone to the police station. The cop hauled the drunk driver in. They hauled in the suspects.

haul something (from some place) to some place and haul something from some place (to some place)

to drag something from one place to another. I don't want to have to haul this thing from home to office and back again. I hauled my suitcase to the airport from my hotel.

See also: place, some

haul something down

to pull something down from a higher level. Terry hauled the sail down and put it away. Please haul down the mainsail.

haul something up (from something)

to drag or pull something up from below. Jeff hauled the bucket up from the bottom of the well. He hauled up the bucket.

See also: up

haul off and do something 

1. Inf. to draw back and do something, such as strike a person. She hauled off and slapped him hard. Max hauled off and poked Lefty in the nose.

2. Rur. to do something without a great deal of preparation. The old man hauled off and bought himself a house. Someday, I'm going to haul off and buy me a new car.

See also: and

haul up (somewhere) and pull up (somewhere)

to stop somewhere; to come to rest somewhere. The car hauled up in front of the house. My hat blew away just as the bus pulled up to the stop.

See also: up

over the long haul and in the long haul; in the long run

Fig. long term; over a long period of time. over the long haul, this model will prove best. This will last in the long haul.

See also: long

over the short haul and in the short haul; in the short run

Fig. for the immediate future. over the short haul, you'd be better off to put your money in the bank. over the short haul, you may wish you had done something different. But things will work out all right.

See also: short

rake someone over the coals and haul someone over the coals

Fig. to give someone a severe scolding. My mother hauled me over the coals for coming in late last night. The manager raked me over the coals for being late again.

See also: coal, rake

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a long haul

something that takes a lot of time and energy It's been a long haul but we've finally got the house looking the way we want it. (American)

See also: long

drag/haul somebody over the coals

to speak angrily to someone because they have done something wrong If I make a spelling mistake, I get hauled over the coals by my boss. (often + for ) They dragged her over the coals for being late with her assignment.

See rake over the coals

See also: coal, drag

haul ass  (American very informal!)

to move very quickly, especially in order to escape When the shooting started we hauled ass out of there.

See haul up by bootstraps, drag over the coals

See also: ass

haul/pull yourself up by your bootstraps

to improve your situation by your own efforts without any help from other people My father pulled himself up by his bootstraps to become one of the richest men in the country.

See also: bootstrap, up

rake over the coals

to talk about unpleasant things from the past that other people would prefer not to talk about (usually in continuous tenses) There's no point in raking over the coals - all that happened twenty years ago, and there's nothing we can do about it now.

See also: coal, rake

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for the long haul

for a long period of time over the long term Before you invest in Internet stocks, be sure you can afford to invest for the long haul.

Usage notes: also used in the form over the long haul (during a long period of time): It's possible, over the long haul, to see changes in the populations of these birds.

See also: long

haul somebody into somewhere

to use or threaten force to make someone go somewhere He was hauled into court and fined ten dollars for not putting his garbage in sealed bags.