Done For

At least the game is not over yet, despite the pundits and putzes dry heaving their assertions about Obama being done-for, a one-termer, heir to Jimmy Carter, etc. heck -- in a late night Twitter-jag, I was saying as much myself. ❋ Steven Weber (2011)

He hastily exam - ined his memory as he went, wondering what he had done-for it was the day and time for Captain's Mast. ❋ Cook, Glen (1972)

An old barn done-for and out of the wormholes ten-legged roaches shook up and scared by sunlight. ❋ Unknown (1918)

To fill our heads, like a scrapbook, with this and that item as a finished and done-for thing, is not to think. ❋ Unknown (1916)

His mother looked so small, and sallow, and done-for beside the luxuriant Clara. ❋ Unknown (1913)

Literally translated, it is equivalent to through, finished, done-for, as applied to an individual's evolutionary progress in Caspak, and with this information was developed the interesting fact that not every individual is capable of rising through every stage to that of Galu. ❋ Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)

If it ends miserably, it will be as if she had had an illness, and got up from it a faded, done-for spinster with a stretch of hideous years to live. ❋ Unknown (1907)

As the last step in the scheme, Gratus summarily removed the old keeper of the prisons, not because he knew what had been done-for he did not-but because, knowing the underground floors as he did, it would be next to impossible to keep the transaction from him. ❋ Unknown (1901)

For there is always something puzzling in the present; unrestful and disquieting in all novelty; and we require, poor harassed mortals, the past and lots of it; the safe, the done-for past, a heap of last year's leaves or of dry, scented hay (which is mere dead grass and dead meadow-flowers) to take our rest upon. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)

Sternly in his eyes she perceived contumely withholding itself, yet even while she felt the done-for cry heave through her bosom, and the floor fail like a sinking deck, she clung to her stage part, babbled impromptu lines. ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)

In the middle of their sitting-room, with the worst done-for look yet, standing behind a frail chair whose back she gripped with both hands, she meditatively said -- ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)

But something -- it may have been that same outdone and done-for look which Greenleaf had just noted -- silenced him, and the maiden resumed where she had broken off: ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)

Behind the brightness was the done-for look, plainer than ever, and with it yet another, a look of keen purpose, which the grandam would have understood. ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)

To get those reluctant consumers or others in with excess metal and done-for appliances, area operators are raising the payoff for sellers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This weekend the cry of "timber!" rises from the basements of the Premier League and Championship (that enduringly absurd misnomer), where Charlton and Southampton are already done-for and Norwich and Barnsley are contesting the right not to join them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[first man]:is it a deal? second man:done! first man:done! [third man]:done and done between two [gentlemen] is enough ❋ Jaems F. (2006)

You want me [to trade] my [Pinto] for your Hummer? [Done and done]! ❋ Celeste (2004)

[Rockville]: I just got out of the shower. Wish you were here to dry me off. [MAUER]: [Done and done] ❋ ZAIDERAID (2008)

Hey guys, goin' have to call this one [the done] done. I got a big game tonight. Sure [Jaret]. See also: [final final] ❋ Sam Jay (2008)

Stay-Puff [Marshmallow man] ❋ Chris46123 (2005)

[Howard]: [How's that] plagiarized english paper coming along? Joey: [Done and done]. ❋ Timato Five (2004)

"Im [so done] in!!! Or "[Im gonna] [do you in]!!!" ❋ MeMeMe (2013)

If i don't get my [papers] [on time] [i'm done] for. ❋ Zerger (2007)

I done [saw that] movie. I done went to [Kmart] yesterday. I done told you not to [touch] that! ❋ Gims45 (2012)

"[Fuck all] this, [I'm DONE]." ❋ Silentmist (2013)