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. But I'm made of knotty Aroostook hemlock; I don't budge.
EVERYONE who works has a degree of trust placed on them by their employers to do the job for which they are paid.
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.
I got my first full-time management job because someone who knew me through two national organizations believed I could do the job. I had no track record at that point.
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- 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 honors, to
- 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
- 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
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- 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 honors, to
- 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 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 trick
- do the trick
- do the trick
- do the trick
- do the unthinkable
- do the world of good
- do their best
- do their bidding
- do their bit
- do their blocks
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