Meaning of wet job | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A covert assassination performed by government operatives.
   euphemistic
2. A vicious attack (on someone's reputation, ideals etc.); a hatchet job.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“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⟳.”

“Being a shocked witness in Lisbon to the Carnivore's last⟳ bloody wet⟳ job”

“But as soon as the janitor saw⟳ Tice, he would have⟳ known he had the wrong man and should have⟳ and should have⟳ withdrawn or attempted a live⟳ capture⟳ to find⟳ out where Theosopholis was. Instead, everything about his style announced wet⟳ job. He was assigned to liquidate Tice, and maybe only Tice.”

“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’.”

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