done for

done for (not comparable)

1. Doomed; without hope of recovery.

   He's done for when they hear that piece of testimony.

   • 1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press, published 1961, page 6:

     I think of Spengler and of his terrible pronunciamentos, and I wonder if style, style in the grand manner, is done for.

• do for

done for

1. past participle of do for

• fordone