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			do heart good do homework Do I have to spell it out? Do I make myself clear? do justice to do level best do me a favour Do me a favour! do more harm than good Do not wash your dirty linen in public do nut do one better do oneself proud do over do own thing do part do proud do share Do sit down do some fine coin do somehow by do somehow for do stuff do the business do the dirty on do the dirty work do the dishes do the hard way do the honors do the honours do the job do the rounds do the running do the trick do the unthinkable do the world of good do time do to excess do up brown Do we have to go through all that again? do with a vengeance do without do you have the time do you mind Do you mind! Do you want to make something of it? dock from doctor Doctor Livingstone, I presume? doctor up doctor's orders			do repairs do repeatedly do research Do Right and Kill Everything do scant justice to do service do share Do sit down do some fine coin do somehow by do somehow for do someone credit do something from scratch do something hand in hand Do Something Intelligent Partner Do Something Society Entertainment do stuff do subtraction do the business Do The Damn Mission Do the Dance Do The Deed Do The Deed Do the dew Do the dew do the dirty on do the dirty on do the dirty on do the dirty on do the dirty work do the dishes do the dishes Do the Freaking Math do the hard way do the honors do the honors do the honors do the honours do the job Do the needful Do the needful Do the Reverse Desk Do The Right Extraction Do the Right Print Do The Right Thing do the rounds do the running Do the Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work do the thing do the thing do the thing do the trick do the unthinkable do the will of do the world of good Do They Know It's Christmas do things by halves Do Things My Way do thoroughly do till is blue in the face

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