In this sentence – Bork’s writings and rulings did him in politically – what does “did him in politically” mean?
My comments:
It means Bork’s political career was ruined by his writings and rulings.
To “do someone in” is the idiom in question here. It’s a slang term for killing someone, or making him fail, tired, etc.
In short, finished, done.
This term is British in origin, popularized no doubt by the hit Hollywood movie My Fair Lady (1964), which was adapted from the play Pygmalion (1913) by George Bernard Shaw.
In My Fair Lady, Freddy Eynsford-Hill fell in love with Eliza Doolittle, and hence also with her uneducated accent – “Rine in Spine” (Rain in Spain), for example.
Eliza told Freddy she believes that her aunt did not die from influenza, as she was led to believe, but was instead murdered by those who also stole the old woman’s straw hat that should have gone to herself (Eliza) for inheritance.
Eliza: Now what call would a woman with that strength in her have to die of influenza? And what become of her new straw hat that should have come to me? Somebody pinched it. And what I say is: Them as pinched it, done her in.
Freddy: Done her in? “Done her in,” did you say? Whatever does it mean?
Eliza: That’s the new small talk. “To do somebody in” means to kill them.
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