To take anothers idea and use it for ones own personal or financial gain.
As with Dan Brown ripping his Da Vinci Code book from the book the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, many names and references translating identically.
"It was my idea to improve our sales targets but that little shit decided to do a Dan Brown and now he's got all the glory."
by DeadlyDazza March 22, 2007
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To do a thing completely or leave nothing to chance.
Likely related to fully cooking meat until it is very well done.
May have roots in California and has been in use since at least the 1930's.
I got word that the CEO and some of his his staff will be at our fundraiser so we need to do it up brown!
by rubberknife August 15, 2021
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A verbal word that describes as breaching a fully paid contract, or ditch a paid event using a flimsy to pathetic excuse.
Name came from Chris Brown's excuse when he failed to appear on a concert paid in full by a religious group in the Philippines, yet appear in a trash concert 2 years later.
Dingo: Look, Mike's Doing a Chris Brown again.
Nina: Not again. He done it before with our sponsor, now he's at it again.
by Kay Tutan Tayo December 11, 2018
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it means you'll beat beat some body up like chris brown did to rihanna
imma do a chris brown on you = hitting or beating somebody up
by s_e_p_h_o_r_a April 17, 2009
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