do someone's dags

noun

To defy someone by doing something that they are unable to do.

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Meanings

noundo someone's dags pl (plural only)
  1. UKobsoletepluralplural onlyslangTo defy someone by doing something that they are unable to do.

    […] do his dags for him, Billy would, if he could get at him. Wouldn't you, Billy?

    1914, William De Morgan, When Ghost Meets Ghost, page 575
    1 more example

    "Can you climb?" asked Gale of Joe. "Like a monkey." "Of course," said Gale, drily, "very much like a monkey." "That's one to you; but I can do your dags." "You can't." "I can — anybody's dags. Look here."

    1880, Our Boys' Paper, page 411

Origin

From darings.

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