do one's duty
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.22 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see do, duty.
Example Sentences
- "And when I was being toilet-trained as a very little boy, she'd always ask, "Have you done your duty?" That was the word for it."
- "If a society is incapable of that kind of trust, it is also incapable of freedom. But if one really believes that only productivity can create strength — that a human being, in other words, has to justify himself or herself by producing something — then maybe the psychoanalysts are right, and everything does go back to toilet training and mother's saying, "Have you produced today, have you done your duty?""
Etymology
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
use the toilet
urinate and Thesaurus:defecate