do it brown

do it brown

English

Verb

do it brown (third-person singular simple present does it brown, present participle doing it brown, simple past did it brown, past participle done it brown)

1. (slang, dated) Synonym of do it up brown (“to do something well or thoroughly”)
   • 1854, Sharpe's London Magazine of Entertainment and Instruction (page 132)

     "Certainly, my love," was the cheerful reply; "what shall I say to him? That I disapprove of his practising the black art on my toast, and that I shall thank him to do it brown in future?"
     "If you like to risk the chance, which is almost a certainty, that the man will misunderstand you, for the sake of making a stupid slang pun, I advise you to do so," was the captious reply.

   • 1874, The Parish Magazine for Berkeley, Dursley, Stinchcombe, and Uley (page 19)

     There are few pleasanter sights than a well-to-do family seated round a well-furnished table; and that was the sight which met his gaze. There was Mr. Brown, and Mrs. Brown, and all the little Browns: they seemed to be doing it brown, even down to the pig, and he looked as brown as any of them.

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary