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do the dirty work

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do the dirty work

to do the unpleasant or difficult things. Well, usually I do the dirty work and someone else gets the credit for getting it done.

Usage notes: often used in the form do someone's dirty work to do the unpleasant or difficult things that are someone else's responsibility: Naturally, he has assistants who do his dirty work.

See also: dirty, work

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Somebody's got to do the dirty work, and it might as well be you. Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context He looked back rapidly, looked down the avenue of a squalid and unlovely life, saw himself the child of drink-sodden and brutal parents, remembered the Board School with its unlovely surroundings, his struggles at a dreary trade, his running away and the fierce draughts of delight which the joy and freedom of the sea had brought to him on the morning when he had crept on deck, a stowaway, to be lashed with every rope-end and to do the dirty work of every one. A Millionaire of Yesterday by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context All you have done is to make murder easy for others; to get others to do the dirty work, and then shelter them and share the gain; all you need have on your conscience is every ife that was lost with the Lady Jermyn, and every soul that lost itself in losing them. Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context More results

References in classic literature

Somebody's got to do the dirty work, and it might as well be you.

Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context

He looked back rapidly, looked down the avenue of a squalid and unlovely life, saw himself the child of drink-sodden and brutal parents, remembered the Board School with its unlovely surroundings, his struggles at a dreary trade, his running away and the fierce draughts of delight which the joy and freedom of the sea had brought to him on the morning when he had crept on deck, a stowaway, to be lashed with every rope-end and to do the dirty work of every one.

A Millionaire of Yesterday by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context

All you have done is to make murder easy for others; to get others to do the dirty work, and then shelter them and share the gain; all you need have on your conscience is every ife that was lost with the Lady Jermyn, and every soul that lost itself in losing them.

Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context

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