chief cook and bottlewasher

1. A person in charge of numerous duties, both vital and trivial, as in We have no secretaries or clerks; the department head is chief cook and bottlewasher and does it all. [Slang; c. 1840]

Example Sentences

In the box were "traps" innumerable in charge of Bert, who was "chief cook and bottlewasher."

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We only keep one undersized girl," he explained more directly to Annie, "and Ellen has to be chief cook and bottlewasher herself.

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