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Someone is said to be 'doing their dirty work' when completing unpleasant or unwanted tasks that nobody else wants. For example, often in movies a character will be asked to kill somebody on behalf of their boss, because their boss doesn't want to be implicated or get blood on their hands; that would be doing his dirty work.

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