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Old March 09, 2018, 12:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Rusty View Post
I don't know if it's a British expression and, if it is, how it's used.
I searched for "work" within 4 words of "black" in the British National Corpus: most of the hits were talking about black workers, some were talking about black and white works of art, or the work of researchers on black holes. There were only three which are remotely relevant to this discussion: "work the black market" (borderline relevant), and "work in the black economy" (twice, and one of them had scare quotes around 'black economy').

The phrase which I think would be most applicable would be to "work cash-in-hand": i.e. being paid without receipts or bank records.
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