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Idioms beginning with "D"
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[do someone out of something] {v.}, {informal}
To cause to lose by trickery or cheating.
The clerk in the store did me out of $2.00 by overcharging me.
[do tell] {interj.}, {informal}
An inelegant expression used to show that you are a little surprised by what you hear.
"You say George is going to get married after all these years? Do tell!" said Mrs. Green.
Syn.: [YOU DON'T SAY].
[do the business] {v. phr.}, {informal}
To do what is needed or wanted; get the job done; take proper action.
The boys had trouble in rolling the stone, but four of them did the business.
* /When the little boy cut his finger a bandage did the […]
[do the honors] {v. phr.}
To act as host or hostess (as in introducing guests, carving, or paying other attentions to guests.)
The president of the club will do the honors at the banquet.
[do the trick] {v. phr.}, {informal}
To bring success in doing something; have a desired result.
Jim was not passing in English, but he studied harder and that did the trick.
* /The car wheels slipped on the ice, so Tom put sand under them, which […]
[do things by halves] {v. phr.}
To do things in a careless and incomplete way.
When he reads a book he always does it by halves; he seldom finishes it.
[do to death] {v. phr.}
To overdo; do something so often that it becomes extremely boring or tiresome.
The typical car chase scene in motion pictures has been done to death.
[do up] {v.}
1a. To clean and prepare for use or wear; launder.
Ann asked her mother to do up her dress.
1b. To put in order; straighten up; clean.
At camp the girls have to do up their own cabins.
2. To tie up or wrap.
* /Joan asked the […]