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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Somebody's got to do the dirty work, and it might as well be you. 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. 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. |
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