do out of

Idioms and Phrases

Cheat or deprive someone of something. For example, Jane tried to do me out of my inheritance but the lawyer wouldn't let her . [Early 1800s]

Example Sentences

Her approach to “Godot” doesn’t suppress the comedy, but it doesn’t nervously chase after laughs either, as some productions are tempted to do out of fear of losing impatient theatergoers.

From Los Angeles Times

Part of the problem is that domestic work is undervalued and often dismissed as “caregiving work that women were just expected to do out of the goodness of their hearts” rather than professional work deserving of labor protections, said Julie Vogtman, senior counsel for the National Women’s Law Center.

From Seattle Times

Giuliani said that the jury's ruling is "absurd," adding that he will appeal the decision and explaining that he didn't testify Thursday, which he'd insisted Wednesday he would do, out of fear of being held in contempt by the judge.

From Salon

“That’s something that Trump would do out of gratitude, if not out of a desire to watch the opposition lose their minds,” he said.

From Washington Times

“Some people might find it surprising that these kinds of linguistic generalization tasks are really hard for systems like GPT-4 to do out of the box,” Solar-Lezama says.

From Scientific American