Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive idiomatic English) To make (a task) quicker or easier. 2 (context transitive idiomatic English) To deal with or overcome (someone or something) quickly and without difficulty.
Usage examples of "make short work of".
Despite their speed and ability, though, T'ang would make short work of one if it darted too close.
Now I will make short work of you this day, for I will hang up all three of you as a farmer would hang up three crows to scare others of the kind from the field.
In Sharon's case, the same nannites that scoured Fleet bodies for radiation damage would make short work of the sunburn.
If you want to give the stack of parchments to Rhegorios, I'm sure he'd make short work of them.
But if you spring it here in connection with another murder case, they'd make short work of me, and you're just smooth enough to know it.
Even if I managed to find him, from what I'd heard he would make short work of me, and where would be the point in that?