if your house has been done over, thieves have got into it and stolen things from it, usually causing damage
to attack someone and hit and kick them
to decorate a building or room again in a completely different way
to do something again from the beginning, especially because you did it badly the first time
As soon as I opened the door, I could see the place had been done over.
Can we afford to have the house done over?
He was done over by a gang of kids.
It needs to be done over and over again.
OK, we’ll do it over, but try to sing the right words this time.
There's not a lot you can do over a phone when things are going wrong at home.
These checks will happen, and have happened to me a hundred times, and then all the work is to be done over again.
What would they do differently if they had it to do over again?
does over
doing over
did over
done over
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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