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单词 do something over
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do something over

1British 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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