Sens: bastinadoing

v. frapper à coups de bâton; donner des coups de gourdinn. tape (sur les fesses ou la plante des pieds); bâton, matraque, gourdin

come within an inch of doing Idiome

be my undoing

"be the cause of my failure; my Achilles' heel" Credit cards may be my undoing. My VISA balance is over $5000!

catch me doing that

see me doing that, find me doing that You won't catch me skydiving. It's too dangerous.

how are you doing

are you feeling fine? is life good to you? How are you doing, Chan? I haven't seen you for awhile.

keep on (doing something)

continue She is careless and keeps on making the same mistakes over and over.

nothing doing

I will not do it, certainly not, no indeed Nothing doing. I am not going to stay and work late again this evening.

doing a buck 50

to speed or get out of a bad situation. Derived from a "buck", or dollar. A buck fifty would then be 1.50, referring to doing 150 miles per hour

doing a hundred

very fine shape

take the liberty to do doing

do sth． with ungranted and sometimes improper familiarity冒昧；冒失
Please excuse me for taking the liberty to write to you．恕我冒昧写信给你。
I took the liberty of borrowing your dictionary while you are absent．你不在时我冒昧借用了你的词典。

take the liberty to do/of doing

take the liberty to of doing

come aural an inch of (something)

To about get, achieve, or acquaintance something. She came aural an inch of the gold medal, but her leg awkward in the aftermost few meters. Hundreds of bodies came aural an inch of afterlife back their accommodation architecture bent on blaze in the average of the night.Learn more: come, inch, of, within

come aural an inch of accomplishing something

Fig. about to do something; to appear actual abutting to accomplishing something. I came aural an inch of activity into the army. I came aural an inch of falling off the roof.Learn more: come, inch, of, within

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take refuge/shelter take sbto task take shelter take sides with take the floor take the liberty to do doing take the liberty to do/of doing take the liberty to of doing take the place of take…to heart take to one's heels take to the trouble take （up）on oneself

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