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  What it means

  Literally “wet job.” This is a euphemism for a task that involves violence or murder, where the “wetness” refers to spilled blood. It is the language of thrillers, crime novels, and gangster movies, used to describe a professional hit or a “dirty” assignment.

  Vocabulary

  • mokry — wet
  • robota — work / job (informal)
  • krew — blood

  Grammar note

  While 'praca' is the standard word for work, 'robota' is more informal and often used when discussing manual labor or, in this case, criminal "tasks."

  Cultural context

  The term is common across many Slavic languages (like the Russian 'mokroye delo'). In Poland, it's mostly used in the context of crime fiction or when joking about a particularly messy or difficult task.

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