Iʹll do for him. Ruin him; literally, provide for him in a bad sense. “Taken in and done for,” is taken in and provided for: but, jocosely, it means “cheated and fleeced.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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