is the expression "do the needful" acceptable to native English speakers?

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A professor of English from English and foreign language university corrected "do the needful" as "do what is necessary. some others say "do what needs to be done" I hope the native speakers of English will respond to my question and talk about the acceptability of all these expressions

Edit: it is not a duplicate because I wanted to know whether the expression is acceptable to native speakers.I did not ask why such an expression is asked instead of a question

I think this is the perfect answer for its simplicity and being factually correct: British native speakers would normally say ‘Please do whatever is necessary’ instead of ‘Please do the needful’ (although ‘needful’ has been used as a noun since the fourteenth century) — Mari-Lou A, Aug 31 '19 at 10:01

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 30 '19 at 19:08

The interesting comments show this question to be a great example of regional differences in English usage. Generally speaking, a variant from one region won't have relevance to equivalent expressions from other regions. I have NOT heard "do the needful" as standard US English. However, television has popularized the expressions "just do it" and "make it so," which are probably equivalent.

is the expression "do the needful" acceptable to native English speakers?

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