Word info

seeing to

Noun

Meaning

(informal) A beating.

(informal) An act of sexual intercourse.

(informal) A thorough cleanup or repair.

seeing-to

Alternative form of seeing to

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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seeing-to

Examples

"[W]e consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor's pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound. Mark Twain

I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out. Jerry Herman

One of the big things about being a man, she'd noted, was that being good, doing the work, wasn't enough. It had to be generally acknowledged that here you were, damn well seeing to business. Michael Marshall Smith

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child. Anne Cassidy

I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle. Anthony Rizzo

Do not mend your neighbor's fence before seeing to your own. Tanzanian Proverb

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