Find the word definition

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
demolition job
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But Leeds completed their demolition job with a fourth 10 minutes from time.
▪ It was a demolition job from start to finish.
▪ Leinster did a similar demolition job on Llanelli and lost narrowly to the South-west Division.
▪ Trapped by the elements, menaced by the wildlife, this team-building exercise ends up being a demolition job.

Usage examples of "demolition job".

Man himself did a pretty fair demolition job but the Vrenka certainly showed us how it should be done, not that we didn't outdo them in our final attack.

An illegal underwater demolition job, despite the fact that I had scarcely any experience of diving, and no experience whatsoever with dynamite.

If, at this late lethal stage, he did pause to wonder, even to question the validity of the task ahead, it was only to ask himself why such a massive demolition job should have to include five half-plane-loads of precious high-octane aviation fuel, as well as a heavy seasoning of cheap sharp metal that would rip white-hot [through the skin of each aircraft, travelling at the speed of a bullet, slicing through roasting flesh and charred limbs.

As ex-editor he couldn't get the food columnist to do a demolition job: the same columnist that had given the recently opened restaurant a ten-star rave.

Straight on to the sea-wall by the jetty, completing the demolition job on that section of sandbags which had been started by the lone crab from the boating lake.