wet job

wet job
   a murder
   But not necessarily by drowning. Also as wet operations or work:
    If anyone fancied the idea of doing a 'wet job' on me then the bomb would go off in hours. (Allbeury, 1983)
    Max was an expert at what the checkists tactfully described as mokrie delà, 'wet operations'. (R. Moss, 1987)
    Heydrich [had] his more donnish subordinates carry out what is uncharmingly called 'wet-work'. (Burleigh, 2000)

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