do the job
do the job
To serve a particular purpose satisfactorily. A broom would really do the job here, but we'll have to make do without it. Go get me a stapler—tape won't do the job with a tear this big.
See also: job
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Some superstitious old carpenters, now, would be tied up in the rigging, ere they would do the job.
If someone is hired to do a job, and they don't do the job, they should be fired.
It tends to be the 20- to 35-year-old age group that really accepts the fact that women can do the job as well as men.
An organization that understands the value of communication and is willing to invest enough money in it to make it pay off shouldn't be discounted because another organization is too short-sighted or penurious to do the job right.
Together they can produce a climate that will encourage men to want to change from phony jobs to jobs that count, to want to reform their organization, and failing in that attempt, to form new organizations that will do the job better, to want to do well without having to kick the shit out of the other guy, to have the fun of waking up in the morning and saying I know I'm going to try to do what I want to do, not what someone else thinks I should do, not what will earn me social position or paper credentials, but what I enjoy doing and do well.
This may be a good time to tell our council people and all our politicians to get off their padded chairs and do the job we pay them for.
We didn't do the job at all in the first half, but we were able to pick it up.
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- do something the hard way
- do something to death
- do something until you are blue in the face
- do something willy-nilly
- do something with a vengeance
- do something with one hand behind your back
- do something without stint
- do something/anything about
- do something/be for show
- do stuff
- do tell
- do the business
- do the deed
- do the dirty on (someone)
- do the dirty on somebody
- do the dirty on someone
- do the dishes
- do the donkey work
- do the drink thing
- do the drug thing
- do the Dutch
- do the hard way
- do the hard yards
- do the honors
- do the honours
- do the job
- do the job/trick
- do the math
- do the math!
- do the maths
- do the right thing
- do the rounds
- do the something thing
- do the spadework
- do the trick
- do the unthinkable
- do things to (one)
- do things to somebody
- do time
- do to excess
- do too
- do unto others as you would have them do unto you
- Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
- do up
- do up brown
- Do we have to go through all that again?
- do well
- do well by (one)
- do well by doing good
- do well by somebody
- do well for (oneself)
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- do the dirty on
- do the dirty on
- do the dirty on (someone)
- do the dirty on her
- do the dirty on him
- do the dirty on me
- do the dirty on one
- do the dirty on somebody
- do the dirty on someone
- do the dirty on them
- do the dirty on us
- do the dirty on you
- do the dirty work
- do the dishes
- do the dishes
- do the dishes
- do the donkey work
- do the drink thing
- do the drug thing
- do the Dutch
- Do the Freaking Math
- do the hard way
- do the hard yard
- do the hard yards
- Do the Harlem Shake
- do the honors
- do the honors
- do the honors
- do the honors
- do the honours
- do the job
- do the job/trick
- do the math
- do the math!
- do the maths
- do the maths!
- Do the needful
- Do the needful
- Do the Reverse Desk
- Do The Right Extraction
- Do the Right Print
- Do The Right Thing
- Do The Right Thing
- Do the Right Thing Right the First Time
- do the rounds
- do the running
- Do the Simplest Thing
- Do the Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work
- do the something thing
- do the spadework
- do the thing
- do the thing
- do the thing
- do the trick
- do the trick
- do the trick
- do the trick
- do the trick
- do the unthinkable
- do the will of
- do the world of good
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