do someone brownとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

do someone brown (三人称単数 現在形 does someone brown, 現在分詞 doing someone brown, 過去形 did someone brown, 過去分詞 done someone brown)

1. (slang, dated) To deceive someone thoroughly; to take in completely.
   • 1848, William Hamilton Maxwell, Brian O'Linn: Or, Luck is Everything, page 164:

     How could he be safe against Master Dickey doing him brown?

   • 1919, Pastoral Review, volume 29, page 723:

     His only defeats were sustained in the Caulfield Guineas, when Malt King put him down, and the same horse “did him brown”– over a mile only each time, mark you—in the All Aged Stakes at Flemington.

   • 1961, Hailey, Arthur, “Chapter Eleven: The White House”, in In High Places (fiction, e-book, hardcover, paperback):

     James Howden dropped into an upholstered wing chair. “They certainly did us brown last night,” he remarked. “You’d think if they are making a switch, being considerate and so on, they’d be a bit more subtle.”