I'm making some tedious calls to a bunch of functions, but the parameters will be determined at runtime. I wrote a simple function to keep my code DRY but giving it a name is unnecessary. I don't use this function anywhere else.

I'm trying to do it the way I would in Scheme, but I get a void-function error:

(let ((do-work (lambda (x y z)
                  (do-x x)
                  (do-y y)
                  ;; etc
                  )))
  (cond (test-1 (do-work 'a 'b 'c))
        (test-2 (do-work 'i 'j 'k))))

I could stick it all into an apply (e.g., (apply (lambda ...) (cond ...))) but that isn't very readable. Is there a better way?