10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DO SOMEONE PROUD»
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A Collection of Confusible Phrases
2. give a person a shock: Their manners now really quite hit you in the eve. do
someone proud make someone proud do someone proud - I. treat a person
extremely well; extend lavish hospitality: They always do us proud whenever we
go to ...
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A Dictionary of Confusable Phrases: More Than 10,000 Idioms ...
2. give a person cause for pride; justify smb.'s pride: Jim's success in the
examinations did his family proud. make someone proud— = do someone proud
2: Perhaps a sudden tract of good fortune would have made me too proud. do
someone ...
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Bloomsbury Dictionary of Idioms
A once-cool hippy expression of the 1960s. Compare paddle one's own canoe.
do someone proud/handsome entertain someone lavishly. They often
entertained us to dinner, and they always did us proud. do the business do what
is expected ...
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
1992 Daily Star lt's do or die for Britain's fearless Rugby League lads Down
Under as they prepare to face the Aussies in the Third and deciding Test. do
someone proud: see PROUD. do something to death: see DEATH. do the dirty on
...
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
[Second half of 1900s] do someone proud 1. Also,do credit to someone. Be a
source of honor, distinction, or pride. For example, She did us proud, handling
the problem with such aplomb, or Your new title does you credit. [Early 1800s] 2.
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The Chambers Dictionary
do someone proud (colloq) to provide lavish entertainment for someone; to
honour someone, give someone cause for pride [OE prud, prut proud; perh from
a LL word connected with L prodesse'lo be of advantage] proul and prouler
Earlier ...
do (someone) over (sl) to give a severe beating to (someone): A group of thugs
came round to his house one night and did him over. do (someone) proud see
proud. do the honours see honour. do the trick see trick. do one's (own) thing see
...
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Chabers 21st Century Dictionary
9 said of flesh: forming a protuberant mass round a healing wound. • proudly
adverb. • proudness noun. • do oneself proud to succeed gloriously. • do
someone proud to entertain or treat them grandly. © Anglo-Saxon prud. Prov. o
abbreviation ...
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Chambers School Dictionary
do 136 doldrums consequences □ do out of to swindle out of • do someone
proud see proud • do up 1 to fasten 2 to renovate | do verb ▻ does, doing, did,
done © Comes from Old English don do abbreviation ditto docile adjective tame,
easy ...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
do (someone) over (si) to give a severe beating to (someone): A group oft/tugs
came round to his house one night and did him over. do (someone) proud see
proud. do the honours see honour. do the trick see trick. do one's (own) thing see
...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz,
1993