do a job on

1. 1.

   destroy completely or make ugly or useless

   “The dog did a job on my pillow”

   “The seamstress did a job on my wedding gown”

   Broaderdestroy

Questions about do a job on

What does do a job on mean?

do a job on means "destroy completely or make ugly or useless".

Is do a job on a common word?

do a job on is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.