| 单词 | to do the business for a person |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto do the business for a person P10. colloquial. to do a person's business (also to do the business for a person): to ‘do for’, ruin, or kill a person. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > destroy or ruin a person spillc950 amarOE smitelOE aspillc1175 mischievec1325 to bid (something) misadventurec1330 mara1375 fordoc1380 undo1390 wrack1564 to make roast meat of (also for)1565 wrake1567 wreck1590 speed1594 feeze1609 to do a person's business1667 cook1708 to settle a person's hash1795 diddle1806 to fix1836 raddle1951 the world > life > death > killing > man-killing or homicide > murder or assassination > murder or assassinate [verb (transitive)] amurderOE murderc1175 homicidec1470 murdresc1480 murtrish1490 manquell1548 slaughter1582 massacre1591 assassinate1600 remove1609 assassin1620 to do the business for a person1759 Septembrize1794 croak1823 square1888 shift1898 to take out1900 to bump off1907 bump1914 to do in1914 to put out1917 to knock off1919 terminate1920 to give (a person) the works1929 scrag1930 snuff1932 wash1941 waste1964 wipe1968 to terminate with extreme prejudice1969 neutralize1970 snuff1973 stiff1974 1667 S. Pepys Diary 16 Nov. (1974) VIII. 533 Lord Vaughan, that is so great against the Chancellor..was heard to swear..he would do my Lord Clarendon's business. 1759 S. Gardner Jrnl. 10 Dec. in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1860) II. 287/1 They did the business for him with an Iron Crow. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer v. 94 Oh, Tony, I'm killed... That last jolt that laid us against the quickset hedge has done my business. 1816 J. Austen Emma I. viii. 122 Her visit to Abbey-Mill..seems to have done his business. He is desperately in love. View more context for this quotation 1891 J. M. Dixon Dict. Idiomatic Eng. Phrases 47 His last imprudent exposure of himself to the night air did the business for him. 1995 A. Norton Mirror of Destiny (2001) 348 Flyin' things..did the business for the Captain's squad. < as lemmas |
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