may as well do

Meaning

1. Editorial67% of films

   Used with as to say that one action is just as reasonable, hard, or pointless as another.

   You may as well do anything most hard as seek to soften that

   You may as well do it with your mouths.

2. Oxford33% of films

   to do sth because it seems best in the situation that you are in, although you may not really want to do it

   And then I thought I may as well do the rest.

In the movies · 6

• Well, we might as well do the town.Saboteur1942
• And then I thought I may as well do the rest.Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical2022
• Since, I had to do it, I thought I might as well do it thoroughly.Anne of Green Gables1985
• You may as well do it with your mouths.Amazing Grace2006
• You may as well do anything most hard as seek to soften thatThe Merchant of Venice2004

Learn it in full scenes

• Amazing Grace2006
  • Wilberforce Meets Barbara in Bath
  • Wilberforce Tells Richard He Found God
  • Pitt Asks Wilberforce to Return

From the same entry

• as well
• be doing well
• may as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb
• be well on the way to
• be well out of
• be well up in
• do well
• do well by
• do well for yourself
• do well out of
• do well to do
• leave well alone

More idioms

• be on the go
• get the message
• take a chance
• be beside the point
• what do you expect
• how can you
• get wrong
• turn your back on
• on the right track
• one of these days
• been there done that
• if i were in your shoes