shoot, shovel and shut up
v. phr.— «Worse, the law may actually speed up extinctions. Farmers have an incentive to destroy protected species before the biologists find them—a practice known as “shoot, shovel and shut up.”» —“The overcrowded ark” in Los Angeles Economist (United Kingdom) Sept. 6, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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