Expressions with DO

Hi,

Today we’ll see some expressions with DO taken from
http://www.sk.com.br/sk-make.html and adapted by myself.


EXPRESSIONS WITH DO
• do the (my, your, ...) best (to) – I will do my best to finish this job.

• do business (with) – My company does business with NASA.

• do the cleaning (for) – Who does the cleaning for you?

• do damage/harm (to) – I didn’t do her any harm.

• do a deal (predominantly in the expression "it's a done deal") – The deal is closed; we made a deal.

• do some dictation – Students, we will do some dictation.

• do the dishes – Who will do the dished tonight?

• do drugs – Don’t do drugs!

• do your duty – I do my duties.

• do an exercise – Let’s do an exercise.

• do an experiment – Scientists do experiments.

• do a favor (for) – Do me a favor and close that door, please.

• do good – I do good to everybody.

• do a good/bad job – You did a good job!

• do your homework – Did you do your homework?

• do the housework – I do the housework all by myself.

• do the laundry – Who does your laundry?

• do an operation (on) – The doctor will do an operation on the patient.

• do (something) over again – Now I have to do it all over again!

• do overtime – I will do overtime today.

• do a poll – Let’s do a poll to see who the best band is.

• do a problem/a puzzle – I like doing puzzles from this magazine!

• do a project – She’s doing a great project at work.

• do research (on) – Do a research on the meaning of these words.

• do the right thing – You did the right thing.

• do the shopping – Let’s do some shopping!

• do someone – I do her every night! She’s great.

• do something – Excuse me, I need to do something now.

• do time in prison – He did a long time in prison.

• do a translation – Did you do the translation of the text?

• do well/badly (in) – He’s doing well in his new job.

• to be done – The work is done.

• to have nothing to do with ... – My friend does stupid things sometimes, but I have nothing to do with those things.

• to have your hair done – I need to go to the beauty parlor to have my hair done.

• that will do it – I only have R$10,00, but that will do it. It’s sufficient.


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