"do the handsome thing" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "does the handsome thing",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "doing the handsome thing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "did the handsome thing",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "done the handsome thing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "do<does,,did,done> the handsome thing"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1851, Carpet-bag: A Literary Journal, volume 1:",
          "text": "Well, thought her parents and the neighbors, the old coger is going to do the handsome thing for little Sally, perhaps when she gets married, in the shape of a nice fit-out; he may give her a snug little cottage, who knows […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act liberally."
      ],
      "id": "en-do_the_handsome_thing-en-verb-oecph9dZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "liberal",
          "liberal"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "do the handsome thing"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "does the handsome thing",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "doing the handsome thing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "did the handsome thing",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "done the handsome thing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "do<does,,did,done> the handsome thing"
      },
      "expansion": "do the handsome thing (third-person singular simple present does the handsome thing, present participle doing the handsome thing, simple past did the handsome thing, past participle done the handsome thing)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1851, Carpet-bag: A Literary Journal, volume 1:",
          "text": "Well, thought her parents and the neighbors, the old coger is going to do the handsome thing for little Sally, perhaps when she gets married, in the shape of a nice fit-out; he may give her a snug little cottage, who knows […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act liberally."
      ],
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        [
          "liberal",
          "liberal"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "do the handsome thing"
}