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do by

verb

  1. intr, preposition to treat in the manner specified

    employers do well by hard working employees

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Behave with respect to, treat, as in John was determined to do well by his children . This idiom was first recorded about 1175.
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Example Sentences

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Like it's unequivocal that damage has been done by that contamination.

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She thinks this was probably done by either collectors or builders who took them from Dorset.

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"Instead of thinking of it as something we do by ourselves, how might we use technology where we are then able to share that with the person next to us?"

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Wyatt Walker explained what he did by indicating that he made no apology for using such a tactic to reveal the racist brutality of the grim system of segregation to the whole nation.

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" we're doing by spreading the seawater on a large surface area. It's a bit like pouring a drink on the floor and allowing the CO2 to come out of the seawater really quickly."

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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