What is the meaning and origin of "do you to a turn"?
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Zooey is right. You can say, 'The roast chicken was done to a turn', but if you say, 'I got up late, then lost my credit card, but losing my job did me to a turn '[ it means that it was the most terrible thing that happened]
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I -think- this means something does something bad to you, with the analogy of a piece of meat on a rotisserie. 'do you' is like 'cook you' and the idea is that it is done completely, like a piece of meat rotating over the heat, exactly completely cooked, no less.
The message is that not only does something affect you, but it does so as completely as possible.
"I was tired already, but working a double shift did me to a turn."
(Somebody correct me if there's another meaning I'm forgetting.)
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