Heading
Mrs. Jones. Also (colloquial), to go away.
To do a crib, verb. phr. (thieves').—To break into a house, to burgle. Fr., maquiller une cambriole. For synonyms, see Crack a Crib.
To do a guy, verb. phr. (thieves').—1. To run away; to make an escape. [From do, verb of action + guy, an escape.] For synonyms, see Amputate and Skedaddle.
1889. Answers, 6 April, p. 297. They all dispersed at once—to put it in their own language, they did a guy.
2. (workman's).—To absent oneself when supposed to be at work.
To do a nob, verb. phr. (circus and showmen's).—To make a collection.
To do a pitch.—See Pitch.
To do a rush.—See Rush.
To do a snatch.—See Snatch.
To do a star pitch, verb, phr. (theatrical).—To sleep in the open air. Fr., loger à la belle étoile. For synonyms, see Hedge Square.
To do a brown.—See under Brown; also Bamboozle. Also to do brown and to do it up brown.
To do for, verb. phr. (common).—1. To ruin. Also, to kill, in which sense, cf., quots., 1650 and 1877. For synonyms, see Dead broke and Cook one's Goose respectively.
1650. Howell, Familiar Letters. The Emperor, who, rather than becom captif to the base Tartar, burnt his castle, and did away himself, his thirty wives, and children.
1752. Fielding, Amelia, bk. vi., ch. iv. He said something, too, about my master . . . he said he would do for him, I am sure he said that; and other wicked, bad words, too, if I could but think of them.
1811. Jane Austen, Sense and S., ch. xli. He has done for himself completely! shut himself out for ever from all decent society!
1877. Five Years' Penal Servitude, ch. iii., p 233. He called out, He's DONE FOR me; he's done for me; send at once for Doctor Howell.
2. (common).—To attend on (as landladies' on lodgers).
3. (thieves').—To convict; to sentence. Done for = convicted.
To do a grind, a mount, a tread, etc., verb. phr. (venery).—To copulate.
To do or play gooseberry.—See Gooseberry.
To do gospel, verb. phr. (common).—To go to church.
To do the handsome or the handsome thing, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To behave extremely well to one.
To do it away, verb. phr. (thieves').—To dispose of stolen goods. Also To do the swag (q.v.); to fence (q.v.).
To do it on the B. H., verb. phr. (common).—To perform with ease. [B = bloody; H = head].
1877. Five Years' Penal Servitude, ch. iii., p. 221. 'What's yer dose?' Looking on to my badge, 'Five, oh, you can do that little lot on yer 'ed easy.'
To do it up, verb. phr. (old).—To accomplish an object in view; to obtain one's quest. To do it up in good twig = to live an easy life by one's wits.
