Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on January 19, 2003 at 20:49:08 from 62.252.32.6 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Not Toast,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, posted by IanWright on January 18, 2003 at 18:46:46:
Chamber's Twentieth Century Dictionary 1959 Edition:
do brown (slang) to do thoroughly, to deceive or take in completely
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Rev R H Barham (1788 - 1845) - "Why Captain, My Lord, Here's the devil to pay/ The fellow's been cut down and taken away./ What's to be done?/ We've missed all the fun./ Why they'll laugh at and quiz us all over the town./ We are all of us done so uncommonly brown" (the Honorable Mr Sucklethumkin's Story)