do it brown
English
editVerb
editdo it brown (third-person singular simple present does it brown, present participle doing it brown, simple past did it brown, past participle done it brown)
- (slang, dated) Synonym of do it up brown (“to do something well or thoroughly”)
- 1854, Sharpe's London Magazine of Entertainment and Instruction, page 132:
- "Certainly, my love," was the cheerful reply; "what shall I say to him? That I disapprove of his practising the black art on my toast, and that I shall thank him to do it brown in future?"
"If you like to risk the chance, which is almost a certainty, that the man will misunderstand you, for the sake of making a stupid slang pun, I advise you to do so," was the captious reply.
- 1874, The Parish Magazine for Berkeley, Dursley, Stinchcombe, and Uley, page 19:
- There are few pleasanter sights than a well-to-do family seated round a well-furnished table; and that was the sight which met his gaze. There was Mr. Brown, and Mrs. Brown, and all the little Browns: they seemed to be doing it brown, even down to the pig, and he looked as brown as any of them.
References
edit- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary