preserve: Mother is doing up some blackberries, so that we can eat them during the winter. make something up—1. (of the road) put a bitumen surface on to make it suitable for traffic: When are the council going to make up this road? 2. repay a loss of smth.; compensate for smth.: You must make up the time that you have wasted by working late tonight. 3. (of a story, excuse, etc.) invent; fabri- cate: These entertainers make their stories up as they go along. 4. apply cosmetics: He saw Teddy approach the clown, Diaz, who sat on his trunk making up his face. 5. constitute smth.: What are the qualities that should make up a man’s character? 6. put smth. together; complete a set of items: The train is made up but is not yet ready to start. 7. fulfill a written order or prescription: The chemist is still making up the order, and says it will be ready in an hour. do the dirties with someone • do the dirty on someone do the dirties with someone(sl.) have sex with a person: You just don’t understand that Sean and I are just friends. I don’t plan on doing the dirties with him. do the dirty on someone—(coll.) do smth. bad and unfair to a person (also: do dirt to someone): The Germans have been “doing the dirty” on us by donning khaki and kilts to approach our trenches. do the dishes • make the dishes do the dishes—1. (U.S.) wash the plates, etc. after a meal: Why am I always the one who has to do the dishes ? 2. cook meals: They also wanted to know how to do these dishes them- selves. That’s what started her small cooking studio. make the dishes—do the dishes 2: The women teach their students how to make the dishes they have been eating for generations. do the room • make room do the room—1. clean the room: At this studio there is a femme de menage that does your room . 2. (also: do up the room) decorate or furnish the room: The paper-hanger who did this room , has done it very well. make room —allow enough free space: She had moved both cups off the tray to make room for her breakfast things. do the trick • make the trick do the trick —1. perform a clever or skilful action to entertain people: When you do a trick , you know you’ve got it when you do it in front of all those people. 2. accomplish one’s pur- pose; achieve the desired result: One more turn of the driver should do the trick . make the trick—gain a point in a single round of a card- game: The play is just like other trick-taking games—the player who made the previous trick starts the next one. do the washing • do the washing-up do the washing —wash dirty clothes, sheets, etc.: Women do the washing and ironing in about four-fifths of households. do the washing-up —wash the plates, etc. after a meal: A few tips for those who do the washing-up by hand: soak the dishes before you wash them… do time • make time do time(coll.) serve a sentence of imprisonment: Our story is about a man who did time for drug dealing and lost custody of his two kids. Cf.: do easy time—(coll.) serve a short prison term: John Murdoch is doing easy time in a minimum security jail dubbed a “holiday camp.” make time—1. (coll.) flirt with a girl; make romantic ad- vances: At another table two young men were trying to make time with some Mexican girls. 2. (also: make good time) ac- complish a distance in a short time; travel fast: They were on a straight stretch of road now and were making time . do up • make up do up —(of clothes) fasten; button up: This dress does up at the back with pink buttons. make up —(also: make oneself up) apply cosmetics: The actors were making up when we arrived. do well in something • do well out of something do well in something —perform well in a subject: So, because I liked science, I did well in physics. Cf.: do badly in some- thing — perform unsatisfactorily in a subject: Students who did badly in the exam needed more practice. do well out of something—benefit from smth.; make a good profit from a sale, etc.: Like the arms dealers who did well out of the war, some have seen their fortunes improve beyond their wildest dreams. Note: Neither expression correlates in meaning with the phrase make good on something1. successfully accomplish smth.: He took advantage of the guard’s attention being distracted to make good on his escape. 2. fulfill a promise: The only person who has made good on his promise is Pierre Salinger, former press secretary to President Kennedy. do with something • make with something do with something—(also: make do with something) accept smth. although it is not quite satisfactory: If we can’t afford meat we shall have to do with fish. make with something —(sl.) hand smth. over; deliver or pro- duce smth.: When are you going to make with the music, man? do without something • go without something do without something —dispense with smth.; manage in spite of not having smth.: Many Victorian households did without a bathroom altogether. go without something —not have (and suffer the absence of ) smth.: Schools have procedures to ensure students do not go without lunch . do you want a bet • you bet do you want a bet—an emphatic way of saying that what has been stated is wrong: “You’ll wind up in the hospital,” Claude said. “Do you want a bet ?” you bet—(also: I bet) an emphatic way of saying “certainly,” “of course”: “Can you handle this outfit?” “You bet ,” said the scout. doctor’s orders • just what the doctor ordered doctor’s orders—said of smth. that one is strongly advised to do or of an order which cannot be evaded: No one will be ad- mitted. “Doctor’s orders ,” they will be told. just what the doctor ordered—that’s exactly what is wanted or needed: The waiter brought her a drink. “Just what the doctor ordered ,” she said, smiling at him. dog and pony show • show pony dog and pony show—an elaborate presentation of a new product, program, etc. designed to impress an audience: They did a “dog and pony show ” for all the faculty and handed out a survey to gauge interest. show pony —(UK coll.) an attractive fashionable person, es- pecially a performer who enjoys being in the limelight: While on tour, he was the target of an infamous comment from Ge- offrey who alleged that Cork was a “show pony .” dog days, the • three dog nights dog days, the —(also: dog days of summer, the) the hot, sultry do the dirties with someone – 102 –