sheep-dip

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The practice within the intelligence community of assigning to agents non-intelligence or military jobs in order to disguise their source agency
a chemical used to kill insects that live in sheep's wool, or a special bath in which this chemical is used
sheepdip
A liquid or lotion used to wash the fleece of sheep

So Joe starts telling the citizen about the foot and mouth disease and the cattle traders and taking action in the matter and the citizen sending them all to the rightabout and Bloom coming out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for timber tongue.

sheep dip
a liquid mixture containing pesticides in which sheep are dipped to kill parasites
sheep-dip
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