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An irrevocable agreement, as in Once you've signed the lease, it's a done deal. This slangy expression, first recorded in 1979, may have come from done thing, originating in the late 1600s.

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But the other thing that needs to be done is for us citizens to do.
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Newspapers around Europe have also done so in solidarity with the slain.
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“Personally, I deal with manners of righteousness and God,” he says.
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Neither the Republican nor the Democratic party have done anything to consistently target Asian- American voters.
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He made clear that he fully appreciated what the cops had done.
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You need but will, and it is done; but if you relax your efforts, you will be ruined; for ruin and recovery are both from within.
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Done, says he, why let fifty of our men advance, and flank them on each wing.
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They are very urgent questions; our sons and daughters will have to begin to deal with them from the moment they leave college.
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By the time I had done my toilette there was a tap at the door, and in another minute I was in the salle--manger.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
And is this a mere fantastic talk, or is this a thing that could be done and that ought to be done?
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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