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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Do for

I'll do for him. Ruin him; literally, provide for him in a bad sense. “Taken in and done for,” is taken in and provided for; but, jocosely, it means “cheated and fleeced.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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