do a number

Hearing these stories, it’s easy to see why McGregor loved “A Gentleman in Moscow,” a series that asked him to learn how to do a number of different things — age a character over decades, play a father and a lover, explore the inner life of a man well versed in grief and loss who never loses his zest for life.

While winning a Maryland Senate race is a different beast altogether than winning a Maryland governor’s race—a few “he’d be another vote for Senate Republicans” ads can do a number in this blue a state—Hogan can’t be taken for granted.

“If you’re going to put a tree in a city, make it do a number of things—not just be a decoration, not just sequester carbon, but do the best you can in terms of supporting biodiversity as well,” said Doug Tallamy, an entomologist at the University of Delaware and a leading native plant advocate.

Jimmy Chérizier may well have designs on becoming Haiti's leader himself, as do a number of others with criminal pasts and questionable credentials.

But expect him to do a number on her anyway, because—and this is another proprietary insight—he is a terrible person who derives pleasure from the suffering of others.