But we can't just brush the matter under the carpet.

Instead of that the government have just swept all the problems under the carpet.

This is not a matter than can be swept under the carpet any longer.

The sense is, let's keep the issue swept under the carpet.

That is nothing more than sweeping everything under the carpet.

But when he got home, his war record was brushed under the carpet.

The parents do not know their own children and just seem to dust them under the carpet.

What they really were is being swept under the carpet.

You want us to be open instead of sweeping everything under the carpet.

It is no good writing about these things or sweeping them under the carpet.