单词 | to do one's do |
释义 | > as lemmasto do one's do P1. Now chiefly U.S. regional. to do one's do: to do what one has to do; to do what one can do or all that one can do. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > carrying out > execute, perform, or carry out [verb (intransitive)] dightc1275 dispensec1374 performa1382 to go througha1460 voyagec1500 to do one's do1650 to put down1943 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > do one's duty [verb (intransitive)] performc1300 fand1488 to do one's do1650 to do one's stuff1663 1650 O. Cromwell Let. 4 Sept. in Writings & Speeches (1939) (modernized text) II. 327 Surely it's probable the Kirk has done their do. 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 199 No sooner does he peep into The World, but he has done his doe. 1840 Sporting Mag. July 236 He [sc. a buffalo] follows up his victory by ‘doing his do’ upon the females. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets iv. 54 [He] can very well afford to let innumerable ducal Costermongers..say all their say about him, and do all their do. 1916 Dial. Notes 4 411 The fall of the year is when sweet-potatoes does their do. 1966–8 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1991) 96/1 I'm..at the end of my strength... About done my do. 1992 Vibe Fall (Preview Issue) 99/3 This is where success brings you: from a cluster of projects in Roxbury, where pimps and dealers did their do out in the open. 1995 N. Jones in G. Smitherman Afr. Amer. Women speak out on Anita Hill–Clarence Thomas 143 I did my do quickly and left, now speeding for the campus. < as lemmas |
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