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dirty work
noun
- disagreeable, often tedious tasks.
- any illegal or dishonest dealing.
Idioms and Phrases
An unpleasant, distasteful, or thankless task or job. For example, Jane complained that she had to do all the dirty work while her colleagues took long vacations . [First half of 1900s]Example Sentences
And yet the same U.S. government that pays El Salvador millions to do its dirty work — and whose president is a strongman wannabe — told the court that it can’t get Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia out of the foreign prison and back home to Maryland.
“And Scott got there by doing the hard, dirty work a great public defender does.”
The acting U.S. attorney who resigned rather than do Trump’s dirty work on the Adams case played a major role in Bankman-Fried’s trial.
“We have been doing the dirty work for the United States.”
"Trump and Vance are doing Putin's dirty work," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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