Do as I do, phr. (common).—An invitation to drink.—See Drinks.
To do a beer, or a bitter, or a drink, or a drop, verb. phr.
(common).—To take a drink.
1853. Bradley (‘Cuthbert Bede’), Verdant Green, ch. x. To do
bitters, as Mr. Bouncer phrased the act of drinking bitter beer.
1880. Milliken, Punch’s Almanack. Got the doldrums dreadful, that
is clear, Two d left!—must go and do a beer.
To do a bilk.—See Bilk.
To do a bill, verb. phr. (commercial).—To utter an acceptance or bill
of exchange. Cf., to fly paper or kites.
1837. R. H. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends [ed. 1862], p. 257. Now,
then, old sinner, let’s hear what you’ll say As to doing a bill at
three months from to-day.
1849. Thackeray, Pendennis, ch. lxii. Sir Francis Clavering ... had
managed to sign his respectable name to a piece of stamped paper,
which ... Mr. Moss Abrams had carried off, promising to have the
bill done by a party with whose intimacy Mr. Abrams was favoured.
To do a bishop, verb. phr. (military).—To parade at short notice.
To do a bit, verb. phr. (common).—To eat something. Cf., to do a beer.
Also (venery), to have a woman.
To do a bunk or shift, verb. phr. (vulgar).—To ease nature.—See Bury a
quaker and Mrs. Jones. Also (colloquial), to go away.
To do a crib, verb. phr. (thieves’).—To break into a house, to burgle.
Fr., maquiller une cambriole. For synonyms, see Crack a Crib.
To do a guy, verb. phr. (thieves’).—1. To run away; to make an escape.
[From do, verb of action + guy, an escape.] For synonyms, see Amputate
and Skedaddle.
1889. Answers, 6 April, p. 297. They all dispersed at once—to put
it in their own language, they did a guy.