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do over

[do over] {v. phr.}

1. To renovate; redecorate.

/The new owners are going to do over the entire building in the fall./

2. To repeat.

/Please do that math problem over until you get it right./

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates © 2010

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