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do a number on someone idiomUSslang to injure someone or something, or to hurt or embarrass someone: 伤害某人;打败某人;使某人难堪 I really did a number on my ankle when I fell.我摔倒时真把脚踝弄坏了。 She really did a number on her old boyfriend, making him beg her to come back and then turning him down.她真的好好治了一下前男朋友,让他乞求自己回心转意,而后却又拒绝了他。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Treating people or animals badly a raw dealidiom abuser anti-harassment at the hands of someoneidiom batten batten on someone ill-treat ill-treatment ill-used impose inflict prey on something put someone through something put upon reduce uncared for use victimization victimize victimology
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