do someone's dags

English

Etymology

From darings.

Noun

do someone's dags pl (plural only)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) To defy someone by doing something that they are unable to do.
   • 1880, Our Boys' Paper, page 411:

     "Can you climb?" asked Gale of Joe.
     "Like a monkey."
     "Of course," said Gale, drily, "very much like a monkey."
     "That's one to you; but I can do your dags."
     "You can't."
     "I can — anybody's dags. Look here."

   • 1914, William De Morgan, When Ghost Meets Ghost, page 575:

     […] do his dags for him, Billy would, if he could get at him. Wouldn't you, Billy?

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary