do someone wrong



do someone wrong

Also, do someone damage or harm . Injure someone; be unfaithful or disloyal; act unjustly or unfairly toward someone. For example, John's done me wrong, and I intend to tell him so, or She did him real damage when she started that rumor: The first term dates from the late 1300s; the substitutions of damage and harm are newer. However, while these locutions are still current, a more common modern usage is to turn them into verbal phrases-that is, wrong someone, harm someone, damage someone.
See also: wrong

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Childress['tʃildris]
MonnaMO-nəEnglish
Primitivus-Late Roman
BrittneyBRIT-neeEnglish (Modern)
Zaccai-Biblical
Koralia-Greek, Late Greek