do someone's business
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Verb[edit]
do someone's business (third-person singular simple present does someone's business, present participle doing someone's business, simple past did someone's business, past participle done someone's business)
- (dated) To ruin someone; to do for.
- 1702, George Farquhar, The Inconstant, or the Way to Win Him:
- I'll spoil his wandering, I'll him. I'll do his business that way, never fear.