do for
English
Verb
do for (third-person singular simple present does for, present participle doing for, simple past did for, past participle done for)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see do, for.
- (transitive, British) To doom; to bring about the demise of someone.
- Smoking did for him in the end.
- She's done for!
- 1918, Siegfried Sassoon, “The General”, in Counter-Attack and Other Poems:
- "He's a cheery old card," muttered Harry to Jack / As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. / * * * * * / But he did for them both by his plan of attack.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 604:
- —That bitch, that English whore, did for him, the shebeen proprietor commented. She put the first nail in his coffin.
Translations
to doom
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