do it up brown
English
editVerb
editdoitupbrown (third-person singular simple presentdoes it up brown,present participledoing it up brown,simple pastdid it up brown,past participledone it up brown)
- (slang,dated) To do something well or thoroughly.
- Synonym:do it brown
- 1865,Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, page513:
- […] seized by Mr. Stompff, who, scarcely waiting to carry him out of earshot, began, “Well! you'vedone it up brown this time, my man,and no flies! Your pictures have woke 'em up. They're talking of nothing else.[…]
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edit- John Camden Hotten (1873)The Slang Dictionary