do
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: MLE, some accents in Irish English and Scottish English
ipa: /dy/
ipa: /duː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: doo
homophone: Doubs
homophone: doux
homophone: (yod-dropping) dew
homophone: due
ipa: /də/
ipa: /dʊ/
ipa: /d͡ʒ/
ipa: /diː/
ipa: /dɪ/
ipa: /dɪv/
Forms: form: does
form: doing
form: did
form: done
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: do
form: do
form: did
form: do
form: doest
form: dost
form: did
form: didst
form: does
form: doeth
form: doth
form: did
form: do
form: did
form: do
form: did
form: do
form: -
form: doing
form: done
form: de
form: dee
Etymology: From Middle English don, from Old English dōn, from Proto-West Germanic *dōn, from Proto-Germanic *dōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do, make”).
For senses 4 and 5, compare Old Norse duga, also Northern English dow.
The past tense form is from Middle English didde, dude, from Old English dyde, *diede, an unexpected development from Proto-Germanic *dedǭ/*dedē (the expected reflex would be *ded), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰédʰeh₁ti, an athematic e-reduplicated verb of the same root *dʰeh₁-.
The meaningless use of do in interrogative, negative, and affirmative sentences (e.g. "Do you like painting?" "Yes, I do"), existing in some form in most Germanic languages, is thought by some linguists to be one of the Brittonicisms in English, calqued from Brythonic. It is first recorded in Middle English, where it may have marked the perfective aspect, though in some cases the meaning seems to be imperfective. In Early Modern English, any meaning in such contexts was lost, making it a dummy auxiliary, and soon thereafter its use became mandatory in most questions and negations.
Doublets include deed, deem, and -dom, but not deal.
Other cognates include, via Latin, English feast, festival, fair (“celebration”), via Greek, English theo-, theme, thesis, and Sanskrit दधाति (dadhāti, “to put”), धातृ (dhātṛ, “creator”) and धातु (dhātu, “layer, element, root”).
Senses: examples: text: Do you go there often?
glosses: A syntactic marker.
A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
examples: text: I do not go there often.
text: Do not listen to him.
text: “Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 51:
glosses: A syntactic marker.
A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
examples: text: But I do go sometimes.
text: Do tell us.
text: Boy, did I make a mistake!
text: That's not true: I always do say please and thank-you.
text: So who did marry the Princess in the end?
text: “I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. […]”
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: "Do stop it," said Susan; "it won't make things any better having a row between you two. Let's go and find Lucy."
ref: 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:
glosses: A syntactic marker.
A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
examples: text: I play tennis; she does too.
text: Likes her cappuccino, Mary does. (UK, colloquial)
text: Your remarks piqued my curiosity, as it did my mom's too.
text: They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
text: Don't be a naughty baby, / Come to papa, come to papa, do! / My sweet embraceable you.
ref: 1930, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Embraceable You:
glosses: A syntactic marker.
A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE.
qualifier: pro-verb
examples: text: Do I just call every number on the list each time?
glosses: A syntactic marker.
Ought to (especially in respect of a task to be repeated).
synonyms: should
examples: text: ...An' the dogs do bark, an' the rooks be a-vled to the elems high and dark, an' the water do roar at mill.
ref: 1844, William Barnes, “Evenén in the Village”, in Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect:
glosses: A syntactic marker.
Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
examples: text: If you want something done, do it yourself.
text: All you ever do is surf the Internet. What will you do this afternoon?
text: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
ref: 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48:
synonyms: accomplish
carry out
functionate
glosses: To perform; to execute.
examples: text: And also my lorde abbot of westmynster ded do shewe to me late, certayn euydences wryton in olde englysshe […];
ref: 1490, William Caxton, “Prologue”, in Eneydos; republished as Caxton's Eneydos, London: Early English Text Society, 1890, page 2:
english: My lord the abbot of Westminster recently brought to my attention some specimens of Old English text […]
translation: My lord the abbot of Westminster recently brought to my attention some specimens of Old English text […]
text: Sometimes to do him laugh, ſhe would aſſay / To laugh at ſhaking off the leaues light, / Or to behold the water worke […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7, page 258:
text: Emongſt the reſt a wicked maladie / Raign’d emongſt men, that manie did to die,[…]
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
text: MOreouer, brethren, wee do you to wit [i.e. we make you to know] of the grace of God beſtowed on the Churches of Macedonia,[…]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 8:1, column 1:
glosses: To cause or make (someone) (do something).
examples: text: it’s not the best broom, but it will have to do; this will do me, thanks.
text: “Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 51:
text: "Here," she said, "take your old Bunny! He'll do to sleep with you!" And she dragged the Rabbit out by one ear, and put him into the Boy's arms.
ref: 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit:
glosses: To suffice.
examples: text: It simply will not do to have dozens of children running around such a quiet event.
glosses: To be reasonable or acceptable.
examples: text: The fresh air did him some good.
glosses: To have (as an effect).
examples: text: Our relationship isn't doing very well; how do you do?
text: Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
glosses: To fare, perform (well or poorly).
examples: text: A big framed beast takes a lot of food — expensive food at that [—] to keep it doing […]
ref: 1908 September 21, “The fattening beast”, in Mark Lane Express Agricultural Journal, page 340:
text: That farm would go like a rick a-fire. It would do: it would go forward and prosper and make him his money.
ref: 1971, George Ewart Evans, quoting ploughman Charles Last (born 1878), Tools of Their Trades: An Oral History of Men at Work c. 1900, Taplinger Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: To fare, perform (well or poorly).
To fare well; to thrive; to prosper; (of livestock) to fatten.
examples: text: What does Bob do? — He's a plumber.
glosses: To have as one's job.
raw_tags: in questions
examples: text: Don't forget to do your report!
glosses: To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
examples: text: I'll just do some eggs.
text: It seemed, from his account, that he was very good at doing scrambled eggs.
ref: 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] :
text: We went down below, and the galley-slave did some ham and eggs, and the first lieutenant, who was aged 19, told me about Sicily, and time went like a flash.
ref: 1944, “News from the Suburbs”, in Punch:
text: Next morning, they woke about ten o'clock, Kev, went for a shower while Alice, did some toast, put the kettle on, and when he came out, she went in.
ref: 2005, Alan Tansley, The Grease Monkey, page 99:
synonyms: word: cook
word: do
glosses: To cook.
examples: text: Let’s do New York also.
text: We 'did' London to our hearts' content,—thanks to Fred and Frank,—and were sorry to go away; […]
ref: 1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “Our Foreign Correspondent”, in Little Women: […], 2nd part, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC, page 115:
text: After doing Paris and its suburbs, I started for London […]
ref: 1892, James Batchelder, Multum in Parvo: Notes from the Life and Travels of James Batchelder, page 97:
text: No tourist can get credit for seeing America first without doing New York, the Wonderful Town, the Baghdad-on-Hudson, the dream in the eye of the Kansas hooker […]
ref: 1968 July 22, Ralph Schoenstein, “Nice Place to Visit”, in New York Magazine, page 28:
text: We got to travel the globe. We did Asia. That's what they say, isn't it? "Did." You know, the globetrotters. Palin. Alan Whicker. We did China. We did Malaysia. Kathmandu was very much a case of Kathman-did.
ref: 2025, Tim Key and Tom Basden, The Ballad of Wallis Island, spoken by Charles (Tim Key):
glosses: To travel in or through, to tour, to make a circuit of.
examples: text: They did me well, I assure you—uncommon well: Bollinger of '84; green chartreuse fit for a prince; […]
ref: 1894, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 87, page 59, column 1:
text: Upon my word, although he [my host] certainly did me uncommonly well, I began to feel I'd be more at ease among the bushmen.
ref: 1928, Dorothy L[eigh] Sayers, “The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers”, in Lord Peter Views the Body:
text: "Why you gonna do me like that?" I ask. "Do what?" "Dog me."
ref: 1994, Jervey Tervalon, Understand This, →ISBN, page 50:
text: Christmas, why you gotta do me like this / I always embraced you / Held you close inside my heart
ref: 2023, “Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This”, performed by Eels:
glosses: To treat in a certain way.
examples: text: The woman-who-did did not do very well, Juliet thought.
ref: 2018, Kate Atkinson, Transcription, →ISBN, page 291:
glosses: To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
examples: text: Vnto this day they doe after the former manners: they feare not the Lord, neither doe they after their Statutes, or after their Ordinances, or after the Law and Commaundement which the Lord commaunded the children of Iacob, whom hee named Iſrael,[…]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 17:34, column 2:
glosses: To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
examples: text: I did five years for armed robbery.
synonyms: serve
glosses: To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
examples: text: They really laughed when he did Clinton, with a perfect accent and a leer.
synonyms: imitate
personate
take off
glosses: To impersonate or depict.
examples: text: He did a Henry VIII and got married six times.
text: He was planning to do a 9/11.
qualifier: event
glosses: To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
raw_tags: with 'a' and the name of a person
examples: text: Case pulled the .22 out of his pocket and levelled it at Wage's crotch. “I hear you wanna do me.”
ref: 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 22:
text: About a year ago, a boy name Brandon got got here in Baltimore. Stuck and burned before he passed. […] Wasn't no need for y'all to do him the way y'all did.
ref: 2003 August 17, George Pelecanos, “Bad Dreams” (43:27 from the start), in The Wire, season 2, episode 11 (television production), spoken by Omar Little (Michael K. Williams), via HBO:
text: He's gonna do me, Jarvis. I kid you not, this time he's gonna do me proper.
ref: 2004, Patrick Stevens, Politics Is the Greatest Game: A Johannesburg Liberal Lampoon, →ISBN, page 314:
text: The order came and I did him right there. The bullet went right where it was supposed to go.
ref: 2007, E.J. Churchill, The Lazarus Code, page 153:
synonyms: word: do in
word: murder
word: off
word: rub out
word: annihilate
word: bag
word: baptize
word: bereave of life
word: blight
word: bring down
word: bump off
word: bury
word: cack
word: compromised to a permanent end
word: croak
word: crush
word: dash
word: deactivate
word: dead
word: demolish
word: destroy
word: dispatch
word: dispose of
word: do
word: do in
word: dust
word: eliminate
word: end
word: eradicate
word: ex
word: exterminate
word: finish
word: finish off
word: flatten
word: grease
word: knock off
word: lay waste to
word: make away with
word: mortify
word: neutralize
word: obliterate
word: off
word: pay off
word: pick off
word: polish off
word: pop off
word: punch someone's ticket
word: put an end to
word: put down
word: put someone out of their misery
word: put six feet under
word: put to sleep
word: ravage
word: rub out
word: ruin
word: scotch
word: scupper
word: scuttle
word: send to eternity
word: send to hell
word: send to the grave
word: send to the great beyond
word: send to the next life
word: slay
word: slaughter
word: smash
word: smite
word: snuff
word: squash
word: stiff
word: stop someone's clock
word: take
word: terminate
word: terminate with extreme prejudice
word: top off
word: top
word: torpedo
word: take care of
word: take down
word: take out
word: waste
word: wax
word: wet
word: whack
word: wipe out
word: wreck
glosses: To kill.
examples: text: Sometimes they lie in wait in these dark streets, and fracture his skull, […] or break his arm, or cut the sinew of his wrist; and that they call doing him.
ref: 1870, Charles Reade, Put Yourself in His Place:
glosses: To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
examples: text: He got done for speeding.
text: Teacher'll do you for that!
glosses: To punish for a misdemeanor.
examples: text: Deme[trius]. Villaine vvhat haſt thou done? / A[aron]. That vvhich thou canſt not vndoe. / Chiron. Thou haſt vndone our mother. / Aron. Villaine I haue done thy mother.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], signatures G2, verso – G3, recto:
text: […] one day I did her on the kitchen table, and several times on the dining-room table.
ref: 1996, James Russell Kincaid, My Secret Life, page 81:
text: The uninhibited woman within wanted to do him right there on the countertop, but I remained composed.
ref: 2008, Donna Hill, On the Line, page 84:
synonyms: word: go to bed with
word: sleep with
word: Formal terms
word: bed
word: coit
word: coitize
word: dight
word: enjoy
word: feague
word: go in unto
word: go to bed with
word: have
word: know
word: lie by
word: lie with
word: love
word: mount
word: occupy
word: penetrate
word: season
word: seduce
word: sleep with
word: take
word: Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with"
word: Informal and slang terms
word: ball
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beep
word: be with
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: boom-boom
word: dick
word: diddle
word: dig out
word: do
word: doink
word: drill
word: eff
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: fill
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get into someone's pants
word: get over on
word: get up in
word: give someone one
word: give someone the time
word: go with
word: have one's way with
word: have one's wicked way with
word: hit
word: hump
word: jape
word: jump
word: jump someone's bones
word: knob
word: knock
word: knock off
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: lay
word: love up
word: make
word: nail
word: plough
word: plug
word: poke
word: pork
word: pound
word: prig
word: pump
word: ream
word: rock
word: roger
word: root
word: run through
word: rut
word: sard
word: schlong
word: screw
word: see to
word: service
word: shaft
word: shag
word: shelve
word: slay
word: slip it to
word: smash
word: smush
word: stallionize
word: swive
word: tap
word: tup
word: wap
glosses: To have sex with. (See also do it)
examples: text: That guy just did me out of two hundred bucks!
text: He was not to be done, at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent.
ref: 1852, Thomas De Quincey, Sir William Hamilton:
synonyms: word: defraud
word: diddle
word: mug off
word: rip off
word: scam
word: abuse
word: counterfeit
word: deceive
word: dissemble
word: dissimulate
word: feign
word: jiff
word: overreach
word: put on
word: spoof
word: sham
word: trick
glosses: To cheat or swindle.
examples: text: the novel has just been done into English; I'm going to do this play into a movie
glosses: To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
glosses: To finish.
topics: business
finance
glosses: To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
examples: text: Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?
synonyms: word: furnish
word: give
word: supply
word: accord
word: add
word: assign
word: award
word: bestow
word: bequeath
word: confer
word: contribute
word: deliver
word: do
word: donate
word: furnish
word: give
word: give away
word: grant
word: hand
word: hand in
word: hand over
word: make over
word: minister
word: pass
word: present
word: provide
word: render
word: supply
word: turn in
word: turn over
glosses: To make or provide.
examples: text: Do they do haircuts there?
synonyms: word: give
word: accord
word: add
word: assign
word: award
word: bestow
word: bequeath
word: confer
word: contribute
word: deliver
word: do
word: donate
word: furnish
word: give
word: give away
word: grant
word: hand
word: hand in
word: hand over
word: make over
word: minister
word: pass
word: present
word: provide
word: render
word: supply
word: turn in
word: turn over
glosses: To provide as a service.
examples: text: "Defender Kolo Toure admitted Given will be a loss, but gave his backing to Nielsen. 'I think he's done his shoulder,' said the Ivorian."
ref: 2010 April 24, “Given stretchered off with suspected broken shoulder”, in The Irish Times, retrieved 21 Jul 2015:
text: "Watto will spend the entire winter stretching and doing Pilates, and do a hamstring after bending down to pick up his petrol cap after dropping it filling his car at Caltex Cronulla."
ref: 2014 April 14, Matt Cleary, “What do Australia's cricketers do on holiday?”, in ESPNcricinfo, retrieved 21 Jul 2015:
text: "'I knew straight away I'd done my ACL, I heard the sound - it was very loud and a few of the boys said they heard it as well,' Otten said."
ref: 2014 August 13, Harry Thring, “I knew straight away I'd done my ACL: Otten”, in AFL.com.au, retrieved 21 Jul 2015:
glosses: To injure (one's own body part).
examples: text: I do cocaine.
glosses: To take (a drug).
examples: text: What's that car doing in our swimming pool?
glosses: To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
raw_tags: in the form be doing [somewhere]
examples: text: He was doing 50 [miles per hour] in a school zone.
glosses: To drive a vehicle at a certain speed, especially in regard to a speed limit.
Derived terms: a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do
are you doing anything tomorrow
as you do
bedo
can-do
can-do-ness
can do this all day
can do with
can't do right for doing wrong
could do
could do with
cute girls doing cute things
doability
do a bit of stiff
doable
do a Bradbury
do a bunk
do-acracy
do a dime
do a land-office business
do-all
do a lot of work
do a Melba
do a never
do a number on
do a perish
do a power of good
do a Reggie Perrin
do a runner
do as I say and not as I do
do a slow burn
do away with
do-badder
do battle
do bears shit in the woods
do bird
do bits
do business
do by
do by half-measures
do by halves
do cartwheels
do cheetah flips
do credit
do down
do drugs
doer
do exactly what it says on the tin
doff
do fish swim
do for
do-funny
do good
do-gooder
do-gooderism
do-goodery
dogoodery
do-gooding
do-goodism
do gooseberry
do ill
do in
do-insertion
do it
do it brown
do-it-herselfer
do it to it
do it tough
do it up
do it up brown
do it yourself
do-it-yourself
do-it-yourselfer
do-it-yourselfism
do-it-yourself-ism
do-it-yourselfness
do-it-yourself-ness
do justice
do-little
do lunch
do me a favour
do me a lemon
do more harm than good
do-naught
done
do no harm
do not disturb
do not enter
do-nothing
do nothing
do-nothingism
do-nothingness
do not want
don't do anything I wouldn't do
don't mind if I do
do numbers
do-ocracy
do-ocratic
do-ocratically
do of
do off
do one's best
do one's bit
do one's block
do one's business
do one's damnedest
do one's darnedest
do one's duty
do one's ease
do one's easement
do oneself a mischief
do one's homework
do one's job
do one's nut
do one's own thing
do one's own time
do one's part
do one's stuff
do one's sums
do one's thing
do one's utmost
do one's worst
do or die
do-or-die
do out
do out of
do-over
do over
do porridge
do right by
do somebody wrong
do someone a frighten
do someone brown
do someone dirt
do someone dirty
do someone like that
do someone one better
do someone proud
do someone's bidding
do someone's business
do someone's dags
do someone's head in
do someone's heart good
do-support
do tell
do the dash
do the decent thing
do the deed
do the dirty on
do the dishes
do the Dutch
do the handsome thing
do the hard yards
do the honor
do the honors
do the honour
do the honours
do the impossible
do the job
do the laundry
do the math
do the nasties
do the nasty
do the needful
do the power of good
do the right thing
do the rounds
do the talking
do the trick
do the washing-up
do time
do to death
do unto others
do unto others as you would have them do unto you
do up
dout
do violence to
do want
do well
do well by doing good
do well for oneself
do what
do what it says on the tin
do-while loop
do with
do with mirrors
do without
do wonders
do you
dup
ease of doing business index
either do or die
fordo
fulldo
gods may do what cattle may not
honey-do list
honey do list
how are you doing
how do
how do ye do
how do you do
how do you sleep at night
howdy-do
how-d'ye-do
I do
I do declare
I do not know it
if I do say so myself
if it's the last thing I do
ill-doing
know what one is doing
let George do it
make do
make-do
make do and mend
make it do or do without
misdo
much good may it do someone
ne'er-do-well
never put off until tomorrow what you can do today
no can do
non-doing
not do someone any favors
not do someone any favours
nothing doing
not want to do that
one could do it in one's sleep
one's gotta do what one's gotta do
one's got to do what one's got to do
outdo
overdo
redo
send a boy to do a man's job
some mothers do have them
sudo
that does it
that'll do
that'll do it to you
that will do
the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must
they'll do it every time
those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it
till death do us part
till death us do part
to-do list
to do with
to what do I owe the pleasure
underdo
undo
up-do
updo
well-to-do
what are you doing
what can I do you for
what can one do
what can you do
what does that have to do with the price of corn
what does that have to do with the price of fish
what does that have to do with the price of tea in China
what do I care
what do I know
what-do-you-call-it
what do you make the time
whatever you do
what is one to do
what it do
what's done cannot be undone
what should I do
what time do you make it
what would Jesus do
who are you and what have you done with someone
will do
wrongdo
you do you
you get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone
you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't