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The phrase "did in" is a perfectly acceptable, informal phrase used in both written and spoken English.
It is used to mean to finish or effectively destroy someone or something. For example: "The team's bad performance really did them in and they failed to make it to the playoffs."
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did in
verb
Simple past tense of do in
Exact(60)
I did, in fact.
Kennedy did in 1960.
Five did in 2009.
She did, in fact.
Because it did, in 1982.
than they did in Penn".
As he did in 2009.
I did in the past.
Mr. McCain did in 2007.
But we did in 2011.
They did in my case.
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