A dictionary of Confusable Phrases: More Than 10,000 Idioms and Collocations

do someone out of something • outdo someone
do someone out of something —(coll.) 
1
. cheat smb. out of his
possessions: He set up some kind of business deal with a part-
ner and his partner did him out of most of his money. 2. pre-
vent a person from doing or having smth.: He can tell you a
story for over an hour about how someone did him out of a
job twenty years ago.
outdo someone —do more or better than another person in
performance or action: Prejudiced attitudes motivated Miles
to outdo his classmates and excel as a musician.
do someone proud • make someone proud
do someone proud —
1
. treat a person extremely well; extend
lavish hospitality: They always do us proud whenever we go
to have a meal with them. 2. give a person cause for pride;
justify smb.’s pride: Jim’s success in the examinations did his
family proud.
make someone proud — = do someone proud 2: Perhaps a sud-
den tract of good fortune would have made me too proud.
do someone up • make someone up
do someone up —(coll.) 
1
. make a person look attractive; dress
smb. up for the party, etc.: It’s not the actress herself I’m calling
unattractive, but the way they “did her up.” 2. get the better
of smb.; ruin a person financially: There was a pleasure in
doing up a debtor which none but a creditor could know. 3.
(UK, usually Passive) wear out a person: We have been working
continuously now…. The stretcher-bearers are done up com-
pletely.
Note: 
The expression is not antonymous in meaning to the
phrase do someone down—(UK coll.) 
1
. defeat smb. (often by
unfair means): Mr. Stothard was using the Times to advance
his own interests and do down his enemy. 2. speak ill of a per-
son: No doubt the whispering voices praised him to the heav-
ens while also doing down his opponents.
make someone up —(of an actor, etc.) apply cosmetics to a
person’s face: The General was close upon eighty; but he was
“made up” to represent a gentleman of about forty.