do someone\'s bidding

[bid-ing]

bid·ding

[bid-ing]
noun
1.
command; summons; invitation: I went there at his bidding.
2.
bids collectively, or a period during which bids are made or received: The bidding began furiously.
3.
a bid.
4.
do someone's bidding, to submit to someone's orders; perform services for someone: After he was promoted to vice president at the bank, he expected everyone around him to do his bidding.

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Do someone's bidding is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

Origin:
1125–75; Middle English; see bid1, -ing1
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