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idiomdo the decent thing BrEBrE1 to leave your job because you have done something that might embarrass the organization that you work for and make it lose respect:After all the publicity surrounding his divorce, the Minister should do the decent thing, and save the government further humiliation.Berridge is not going to do the decent thing unless there is some profit in it for him.2 old-fashioned to marry a woman because you have had sex with her, and she is going to have a baby:I hope that you are planning to do the decent thing for this poor girl.
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