earn a passport

earn a passport
   to be rewarded as an assassin
   Another duty, it would seem, of the women in the harem, who might be lent by the sultan to a minister with orders to kill him:
    Her task accomplished, she was reintegrated into the Royal household and rewarded for her services. In the argot of the Seraglio, this was known as 'earning a passport'. (Blanch, 1954)

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