to do the deed
7
7.8
- idiom
- NSFW
:
hacer el acto
- Papi has done the deed.
Celestina and Ephraim are going to have to do the deed and make an Archangel baby.
- Celestina and Ephraim are going to have to do the deed and make an Archangel baby.
- We were all staying over in in the same hotel and in the morning when he came into my room after doing the deed.
Examples
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Before they could move in together, they wanted to do the deed and get married.
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We"re supposed to do the deed tonight.
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You two go and do the deed.
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Will you please just go in there and do the deed so you can report back?
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Then, they do the deed.
Blog text (8) -
We stayed together for 2 more years and found more private places to do the deed.
Blog text (11) -
Why don't you just go inside and do the deed and report back?
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But we've already done the deed.
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They do the deed and he goes back to his old self.
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Do the deed, that's no skin off my nose.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
∞
3.0
To touch each other's private parts for physical pleasure
999
9.8
To have sex with someone
23
8.1
To have sex with someone
1
9.9
To have sex with someone
1
9.9
To have sex with someone, used in informal British English
To have sex with someone
How Decisive
233
3.6
- NSFW
7
7.8
348
1.8
161
2.8
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal composition of 'do' (perform) + 'deed' (an act) makes the general meaning 'perform an action' readily derivable for a B1 learner who knows the constituents. However, the phrase's frequent euphemistic use for marriage or sexual intercourse is pragmatic/idiomatic and not fully predictable from the words alone, so the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Do the deed uses deed in the old sense of 'an important act', giving the image of someone completing a big, often private action. That's why people use it as a polite or slightly secret way to say 'get married' or 'have sex'.