wet job

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A covert assassination performed by government operatives. euphemistic
    — Like the Navy SEALs (who often work in conjunction with the Delta Force), Delta Force can go anywhere, anytime; they just leave the wet jobs to SEAL Team 6-the navy's version of Delta Force.
  2. A vicious attack (on someone's reputation, ideals etc.); a hatchet job. figuratively
    — The following year – the year of lawyering dangerously, at least at the LRB – saw Hitchens’s wet job on Henry Kissinger (22 October 1992). As he does with many of his subjects, he walked straight up to this one and dropped the guillotine, likening the book under review – an authorised biography – to ‘the profile of a serial murderer’.

词形变化

wet jobs plural
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