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Dec 7, 2010 · Be careful with that gift. If it comes undone, they'll be able to see what is inside. In the figurative sense, it means that something has either not gone as planned, or has failed in some way. E.g. a plan can come undone meaning it hasn't worked as expected. A person can come undone meaning that they have lost their composure or self-control.
Oct 30, 2014 · Undone can mean "unfastened", referring obviously to the letting down of the girls' perfumed hair. The fact that the singer was close enough to the hair for its perfume to have made such a lasting impression suggests he was intimately connected, at least on one occasion, with its coming undone. An alternative meaning is "ruined, destroyed".
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Mar 5, 2021 · The SOED lists "undone" three times, two entries are adjectives and one is the past participle of "undo". (SOED) undone a.¹ Not done, unaccomplished, uneffected, incomplete. (SOED) undone a.² 1. Ruined, destroyed; reversed, annulled. 2 Unfastened, untied, loosened
Sep 6, 2017 · “Your Flies Are Undone!” The article then mentions a British euphemism that was commonly heard before WWII that signalled the gentleman to fasten the buttons on his trousers. “There’s a star in the East” The British writer, and The Times journalist Philip Howard, seems to confirm the validity of this phrase. Questions
Jan 29, 2021 · It is a (rather old-fashioned) pun on 'undone' but it turns on Lexico's third definition of the word: undone formal, humorous (of a person) ruined by a disastrous or devastating setback or reverse. ‘I am undone!’ "Alas! I am undone!" is still in common, and histrionic, usage. As a pun it was a favourite of Frankie Howerd's character in Up ...
Oct 27, 2014 · "what you are willing to die having left undone" is such a clumsy way to say this. it would be much more understandable if it was instead "what you are willing to leave undone upon death" – oldboy Commented May 1, 2023 at 20:21
When a button gets unbuttoned by accident, you can say that, for example, Your top button has come undone, or My button came undone and everyone could see and they laughed at me. If you order someone to button a button that has come undone, you can tell them Fix your button. I can only find one instance where do is used to mean "button."
Sep 19, 2018 · He won't come out. What this really and originally means is "he doesn't want to come out", the old meaning of the verb. Perhaps the sense of wish or desire is not entirely clear any more to most modern speakers, but it is the reason behind this construction. The fact that we find it odd when we think about it is testimony to that.
Mar 26, 2011 · The doers undone’ is a line from the famous ‘Macbeth.’ But still I don’t understand what the writer wants to say by quoting this particular line. For instance, If I use a well-known line from a Kabuki play in the catch phrase of play review, it doesn’t make any sense as a punch line that crystallizes my whole view as a drama critic.
