that does it

Also, that does the trick. The last requirement has been fulfilled; that accomplishes it. For example, That does it; we're ready to send in the application now, or That last screw does the trick—it's fully assembled. Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1823) defines do the trick as “accomplish a robbery or other business successfully,” and presumably the it in the first term stands for the trick. [Early 1800s] Also see that's that.

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“I was interested in characters that had great promise but ultimately didn’t achieve that promise. �� happens to somebody afterward? How do they react to that? Do they let themselves be defined by not achieving that level, or do they try to reconcile that? Does it motivate them to excel in other areas of their life?”

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“We did the best job against the team that does it the best in the country,” Becker said.

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“It's not necessarily the playing that does it,” she explained.

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He said: "The fact that he's been flagged up so many times and because he didn't meet the criteria of certain things... It just doesn't work like that, does it?"

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This is not a place that can be described, painted or photographed in any way that does it justice, though many have tried.

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