dirty work

David Philips, a senior NCA investigator, said "organised criminals like Emmanuel-Thomas" used persuasion and payment to get people to do their dirty work.

The idea seems to be that Republicans can reframe unpopular attacks on reproductive rights as more acceptable government cost-cutting measures by relying on the Department of Government Efficiency to do their dirty work.

This was Adams’ dirty work, Mamdani said.

Coach JJ Redick has referred to it multiple times regarding role players, but stars such as LeBron James and Luka Doncic know doing the dirty work leads to winning.

The other side of the detective’s profile has him strolling between the starched propriety of upper-class society and the sooty underbelly, doing rich men’s dirty work.