black job

black job
   a funeral
   Mourning clothes are that colour:
    One of Lord Portsmouth's eccentricities was that he took an obsessive interest in funerals ('black jobs') and slaughterhouses. (Tomalin, 1997)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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