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Done Up

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Thoroughly tired and wearied out. Up means ended, completed, as the “game is up” (over, finished), and adverbially it means “completely,” hence to be “done up” is to be exhausted completely.

 

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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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Donation of Pepin (The)
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Done Brown
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Done Up
Donegild
Donkey
Donkey Engine (A)
Dony
Donzel (Italian)
Doolin
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Doom Book (dom-boc)
Doom-rings
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