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did someone's bidding

did someone's bidding is the simple past of do someone's bidding.

Meaning of do someone's bidding

Verb

do someone's bidding (third-person singular simple present does someone's bidding, present participle doing someone's bidding, simple past did someone's bidding, past participle done someone's bidding)

  1. To act on behalf of a person in authority, executing their every command.
    • Once Princess in Love was published, Diana threw both Hewitt and Pasternak under the bus. Besotted to the end, her cashiered toy soldier never revealed whether or not he had done her bidding.April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair

Questions about did someone's bidding

What is did someone's bidding the simple past of?
Did someone's bidding is the simple past of do someone's bidding.

Words near did someone's bidding in the dictionary

  1. did someone a frighten
  2. did someone brown
  3. did someone like that
  4. did someone one better
  5. did someone proud
  6. did someone's bidding
  7. did someone's business
  8. did someone's head in
  9. did someone's heart good
  10. did the dash
  11. did the decent thing

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