Behave in a manner characteristic of (a specified person)
‘he did a Garbo after his flop in the play’
‘I am not doing an Arsene Wenger, but I did not see the incident that led to his first booking.’
‘Anyway, old Neb thought he was the greatest wonder of the world, especially after doing an Alan Titchmarsh on the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.’
‘I thought Knight was doing an Anastacia as this album opened to the rock-tinged tune of her latest single Come As You Are.’
‘The leading actors even wore the correct underwear beneath their historically researched costumes - known in the trade as doing a von Stroheim, because Erich von Stroheim insisted on undie realism in 1924 for Greed.’
‘He was caught on camera doing a Vinny Jones on St Mirren striker Mark Yardley.’
‘People will naturally say, ‘Ah, motor racing, money, TV - it's a money-spinning exercise; he's doing a Simon Cowell’.’
‘As I pictured him doing a Travis Bickle through the urine reeking, hashish infested streets of Madrid, I felt like paraphrasing Oscar Wilde, one would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at the man.’
‘So without doing a Walt Whitman, I'm now going to self-refer.’
‘I am not doing a Germaine Greer or Betty Friedan.’
‘Anyway, surely, if he wanted to make it truly dramatic, he should have tried doing a Richard Hannay and hanging off the clock hands.’
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