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Done Brown

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He was done brown. Completely bamboozled or made a fool of. This is a variety of the many expressions of a similar meaning connected with cooking, such as “I gave him a roasting,” “I cooked his goose,” “I cut him into mince-meat,” “I put him into a pretty stew,” “I settled his hash,” “He was dished up,” “He was well dressed” [drubbed], “He was served out,” etc. (See Cooking.)

 

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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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Domisellus
Don
Don
Don Giovanni
Don Juan
Don Quixote
Donation of Pepin (The)
Donatists
Doncaster
Dondasch
Done Brown
Done For
Done Up
Donegild
Donkey
Donkey Engine (A)
Dony
Donzel (Italian)
Doolin
Doom
Doom Book (dom-boc)