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		stonemetal12 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Preschoolers can reason better than we think, stud... "I did a runner" British idiom means I ran away without paying. The only problem with "I did a water" is I don't know what "a water" is without context. If person A said "I did a shot" and person B said "I did a water", it would make perfect sense.

thfuran 9 months ago [–]

I can't offhand think of a case where that construction is appropriate for a noun that isn't a nominalized verb.

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