"I was doing..."

[CONCERNEDH]

I heard the following phrase today from the respectably looking male hair stylist addressing the customer:
"I was doing your wife on July 20th..." And then "Oh, yeah, you are getting a discount today"

I thought this phrase ("to do somebody") is reserved for the sexual intercourse, and is vulgar and slang. Was I wrong? Is that possible to use this construction in other meanings?

Thanks.

[Mad-ox]

hi,

''do a somebody'' means do or behave as somebody did or would do

madox

[CONCERNEDH]

Originally Posted by Mad-ox

hi,

''do a somebody'' means do or behave as somebody did or would do

madox

How that could fit the context described above?

[Nikole]

I think she meant that she made a hairdressing or arranged her hair

[riverkid]

Originally Posted by CONCERNEDH

I heard the following phrase today from the respectably looking male hair stylist addressing the customer:
"I was doing your wife on July 20th..." And then "Oh, yeah, you are getting a discount today"

I thought this phrase ("to do somebody") is reserved for the sexual intercourse, and is vulgar and slang. Was I wrong? Is that possible to use this construction in other meanings?

Thanks.

Yes, though it's tinged with the sexual meaning, [sex seems to trump a lot of things; pretty powerful stuff] it can be used in other situations; in this case, "I was cutting/perming/etc your wife's hair".

[Philly]

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"I was doing your wife's hair" would be a perfectly normal thing for a hairdresser to say and the omission of the word hair is also understandable - particularly in the context given. After all, that's what a hair stylist does: He does hair.
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Whether the hairdresser might have been intentionally trying to be facetious is hard to say. But, to me, it sounds like the double-entendre was intentional --- particularly in light of the follow-up comment.
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