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doing someone's bidding

doing someone's bidding is the present participle and gerund 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 doing someone's bidding

What is doing someone's bidding the present participle and gerund of?
Doing someone's bidding is the present participle and gerund of do someone's bidding.

Words near doing someone's bidding in the dictionary

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

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