释义 |
do something over1British informal Ransack a place, especially while searching for something worth stealing: Jacqui’s flat had been done over—the evidence was all too clear...- When he arrived back from Geneva last Saturday he found his house had been done over.
- Vandals have also done over his shop.
- My house still looks as if it's been done over by a gang of particularly thorough burglars.
2 informal Decorate or furnish a room or building: a two-room flat done over by a local designer...- It was bought about a year ago by an outfit called Country Club Luxury Hotels and has been completely done over.
- She did the house over -- completely, with the exception of the room he'd used for a study.
- I feel like those people on TV getting their houses done over by expensive designers.
3North American informal Repeat something: to absorb the lesson, I had to do it over and over...- Even simple choices can have huge consequences, and we never get to do things over!
- They saw the dailies, and they came back a couple weeks later, and they said, ‘We'd like to do that scene over, and we'd like you to be more passionate.’
- Though Mary Jane made the artist do the face over, the expression did not improve.
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