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do it up brown en · VERB
Meanings
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(dated, slang) To do something well or thoroughly.
[…] seized by Mr. Stompff, who, scarcely waiting to carry him out of earshot, began, “Well! you've done it up brown this time, my man, and no flies! Your pictures have woke 'em up. They're talking of nothing else. […]
1865, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, page 513:
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Relateds
do someone brown · done brown
Synonyms
do it brown