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Also, do a number on . Damage, harm, as in The cat really did a job on the upholstery , or The teacher did a number on the class with that assignment . This slangy idiom uses job (or number ) in the sense of “something negative.”

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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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