10 АНГЛІЙСЬКА КНИЖКИ ПОВ'ЯЗАНІ ІЗ «DO SOMEONE DIRT»
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
... cautiously. o The image here is of putting your toe briefly into water in order to
check the temperature. dip your wick: see wICK. dirt dig (up) the dirt: see DIG. do
someone dirt harm someone maliciously. informal 1939 Nathaniel West The Day
...
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Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and ...
It is rumored that he supplied amphetamines to members of New York City's
swinging high society, including President Iohn F. Kennedy. 4. “Dr. Feelgood," a
song performed and co-written by Aretha Franklin. do (someone) dirt to do
something ...
John Bassett Mccleary, 2013
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
See clobber, n. do (one's) crunch. To become enraged: army: since ca. 1955. '
You shoulda seen 'im when 'e found it—done 'is crunch, 'e did.' (P.B.) ' do (one's)
dash. 'To reach one's Waterloo' (C). Dennis): Aus.:~—1916. do (someone) dirt.
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Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
(a/so do dirt by someone, do someone dirt) 1 [late 19C+] to harm, to injure
deliberately, often verbally. 2 [late 19C+] to act in a deliberately immoral or
unethical manner. 3 [1970s+] (US gay) to pass on gossip (cf. DEAL DIRT v.). [
DIRT n.
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Oxford Dictionary of English
phrases do someone dirt (also do dirt to) informal harm someone's reputation
maliciously. drag the name of someone/thing through the dirt informal give
someone or something a bad reputation through bad behaviour or damaging
revelations.
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
Another version is do someone dirt, a colloquialism from the second half of the
1800s. However, while these locutions are still current, a more common modern
usage is to turn them into verbal phrases—that is, wrong someone, harm
someone ...
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Let's Talk Turkey: The Stories Behind America's Favorite ...
Several expressions are based on dirt, that most fundamental of outdoor
substances: do someone dirt, eat dirt—meaning to make a humiliating admission
—and the now old-fashioned cut dirt, meaning to leave. Americans were also the
first to ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
... test something cautiously. The image here is of putting your toe briefly into
water in order to check the temperature. dirt. do someone dirt harm someone
maliciously. informal 1939 Nathaniel WestThe Day of the Locust I remember
those dip dirt.
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Little Red Book of Idioms and Phrases
... gall Write unpleasantly or spitefully Dip you toe Begin to doortest something
cautiously into something Do someone dirt Harm someone maliciously Treat
someone like dirt Treat someone contemptuously The dirty end of the stick The
difficult ...
rU direction step in the right direction ft STEP dirt cheap as dirt ft CHEAP to dish
the dirt ft DISH to do someone dirt (fl) JfUS + fS (|£A) ; fBJ&I&^glH't <£A) (He
frequently didhimdM i&HMtBM'Ptoib ! ) to eat dirt ft EAT * to throw dirt at [a)MM^iU
I ...
