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Examples
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'Bonus' was the euphemism for wet-work overrides, extra money Looking-Glass received for successful terminations.
The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983
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Ross has done the wet-work of compiling all the technical research and target prices for us.
unknown title 2011
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Dracula to the gory wet-work of Repairman Jack, and I'd rather see a lovely lady in a negligee being terrorized in a Dario Argento movie than I would watch a girl getting her eyeballs ripped out in a
Fatally Yours Fatally*Yours 2010
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Dracula to the gory wet-work of Repairman Jack, and I'd rather see a lovely lady in a negligee being terrorized in a Dario Argento movie than I would watch a girl getting her eyeballs ripped out in a
Fatally Yours 2010
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Best to tell your lads and lasses to stick to those nice safe paper cases (you know, the ones with the 4473s completed with a "Y", rather than "yes") and confine their wet-work fantasies to their off-duty reading.
Infowars 2009
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Best to tell your lads and lasses to stick to those nice safe paper cases (you know, the ones with the 4473s completed with a "Y", rather than "yes") and confine their wet-work fantasies to their off-duty reading.
Infowars 2009
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A sort of antipodean ethnic wet-work cleansing … the Croatian nation is one of the best exponents of the art of genocide after all.
Anorak News 2008
bilby commented on the word wet-work
"The doorman at Donaldson's building was dead. The wet-work had been carried out gangland-style in all cases, with the hitter simply walking up to his victims and starting in."
- 'The Dark Half', Stephen King.
December 31, 2007