do a number on somebody/somethinginformal to hurt or damage someone or something badly 严重伤害[损坏]某人/某物 Tod really did a number on the old house. I don’t envy the new tenants. 托德把那所老房子搞得一塌糊涂,我可不羡慕他后面的新租户。
do a number on somebody/something• Danny did a real number on the car.• It was a small piece of shrapnel, but it did a number on the left cheek of my hind end.
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