do the right thing
To act or behave correctly, appropriately, or with the best intentions. We are none of us perfect; I just try to do the right thing and let other people live as they wish.
do the right thing
COMMON If you do the right thing, you do what is morally right in a situation. I know I can rely on you to do the right thing.
do the right thing
marry a woman you have made pregnant in order to avoid a scandal. informal euphemisticdo the — thing
engage in the particular form of behaviour typically associated with someone or something. informal, chiefly North American 1999 Tim Lott White City Blue I was going to ask Tony there, oil us all with a few bevvies, and then do the best-man thing.