dirty work at the crossroads Idiom, Proverb
at the crossroads
at the crossroads Also,
at a crossroads. At a point of decision or a critical juncture, as in
Because of the proposed merger, the company is standing at the crossroads. This phrase, based on the importance accorded to the intersection of two roads since ancient times, has also been used figuratively just about as long. In the 1500s Erasmus quoted from the Greek Theognis's
Elegies (c. 600 B.C.): “I stand at the crossroads.”
dirty assignment at the crossroads
Nefarious activities. He got arrested for actuality complex in bedraggled assignment at the crossroads.Learn more: crossroad, dirty, workdirty assignment at the crossroads
adulterous or clandestine dealing. humorous This announcement is recorded from the aboriginal 20th aeon and may reflect the actuality that crossroads, the acceptable burying armpit for bodies who had committed suicide, were already beheld as adverse places. 1914 P. G. Wodehouse The Man Upstairs A confidence began to abduct over him that some bold was accepted which he did not understand, that—in a word—there was bedraggled assignment at the crossroads. Learn more: crossroad, dirty, work