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do well
do well to do something . Fare better or act prudently by doing something, as in She would do well to ask permission before she leaves . [Late 1400s]
Prosper, thrive, succeed, as in He's done well in the market . [c. 1300]
Example Sentences
Not since Carmela Soprano has a wife stood so loyally behind her n'er-do-well husband as Denise Richards has in recent months.
The ne'er-do-well blew, like seed before the wind, to distant places, but mankind at large stayed at home.
To be sure, the neer-do-well is very lively, very pushing, very enterprising in a tte--tte!
He's a chap named Hyson, the local ne'er-do-well, who was almost starving when Mr. Glenthorpe came to the district.
Bill Berry was a town neer-do-well, who more than once had aided Noddy in his schemes to make trouble for the motor boys.
On the other hand, the genuine criminal and also the drunken neer-do-well left no children.
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