The American people were shut out of this process while energy companies and oil industry were given the red-carpet treatment.
But in their own clumsy, haphazard way, they're trying to give us the red-carpet treatment.
Hingis and Williams received red-carpet treatment from the tour before they had even played a match.
When Anderson arrived at practice, he didn't exactly receive red-carpet treatment.
And it is the regulars who get the red-carpet treatment.
For such customers to demand red-carpet treatment strikes them as impudent.
But for all their spending, visitors don't exactly get red-carpet treatment.
To their delight, business leaders say, they have been given red-carpet treatment by both the administration and Congressional Republicans.
"I don't like the red-carpet treatment," he said later.
Eschewing the red-carpet treatment, he insisted on joining a tour group, despite the summer heat.
Idiome