do sb proud
UK old-fashioned to treat someone who is visiting you very well, especially by giving them a lot of food:
We had a lovely tea - Sheila did us proud.
informal to make someone proud of you by doing something very well:
Once again, the armed forces have done us proud.
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Treating someone well
- allowance
- be spoilt for choice idiom
- coddle
- cosset
- do as you would be done by idiom
- fuss
- indulgence
- kid
- make much/a lot of sb idiom
- mollycoddle
- mother
- pander to sb/sth
- respect
- see sb right idiom
- smother
- spoil
- spoil sb rotten idiom
- succour
- treat
- treat sb like royalty idiom
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