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perform (something) on (someone or something)

To begin and bring to completion some kind of procedure or activity focused on someone or something. I won't have anything to drink, thanks—I'm performing open-heart surgery on one of my patients tomorrow. He was arrested for performing experiments on animals. We've performed an exhaustive scan on your computer, but we couldn't find any malicious software.
See also: on, perform

perform miracles

To achieve extraordinary results, especially in trying to improve a situation. The therapist we hired has performed miracles with Johnny's behavioral issues. If we're going to bring this company back to its former glory, we'll need a marketing team that can perform miracles.
See also: miracle, perform
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*old warhorse

a performance piece that is performed often. (*Typically: be ~; become ~; perform ~; play ~.) The symphony orchestra played a few old warhorses and then some ghastly contemporary stuff that will never again see the light of day.
See also: old, warhorse

perform something on someone or something

to do something to someone or something; to carry out a procedure on someone or something. The surgeon performed a simple office procedure on the patient. Do you expect me to perform magic on this problem?
See also: on, perform
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

do/perform/stage a disapˈpearing/ˈvanishing act

(informal) go away or be impossible to find when people need or want you: Ian always does a disappearing act when it’s time to wash the dishes.This refers to a magic trick done by a magician in which they make themselves or another person disappear.
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For more accuracy and to provide the proposed models performable in reality and industrial situations, the case studies based on industrial information from the existing supply chains should be gathered and examined.
All of the above-mentioned considerations clinical trials should be designed and developed on the basis of a thorough knowledge of physio-pathological, prognostic, and technical characteristics of stress echo-Doppler techniques and parameters, choosing the most performable and reproducible.
In addition, antisolvent approaches sustain different characteristics and are performable for products having several peculiarities.
Osundare expresses this this way: "in Yoruba, poetry is song and chant, a performed or performable event throbbing with human breath, with a robust sense of audience and participation ...
Similarly, the chemical doping at Fe site for GaC[Fe.sub.3] may be performable. However, no report was found on the chemical substitutions for the Fe site of Fe-based antiperovskite compound GaC[Fe.sub.3].
A quick, easily performable torque test provides an effective solution.
--in the Green Paper called "The General Principles of Food Law in the European Union" dated 30 April 1997, (11) the European Commission stipulates that the measures taken for the maintenance of a high level of public health, environment and consumer protection must be based on the risk assessment considering all the pertinent risk factors, as well as the technological aspects, the best scientific available proofs and the existence of the inspection methods, sample drawing and research, and when "an exhaustive risk assessment is not performable, the measures must be based on the precautionary principle;"
Indeed, the video, with its compressed set of scenes embodying discrete standpoints, is patterned on the German playwright and theorist's concept of the Lehrstuck, or "learning play." Lehrstucke, performable by workers or schoolchildren, are designed to work in the absence of an audience: They are intended to allow their participants to work through a dilemma-like situation and reach a conclusion (usually the one ring-fenced by the playwright).
Jess and Tashi started to mould the anecdotes into a piece of theatre, turning a weekly meeting into "something performable".
"We hope that our exploration of every performable Schubert work across 200 hours of programming will bring new and old audiences together alike," he said.
This volume of duets accomplishes its stated goals, with enjoyable, performable pieces that have nice variety and interesting challenges.
As theater pieces, rather than merely historical artifacts, these sonnets deserve a greater degree of presence within the current performable dramatic literature in Italian.
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