tea lady

British  

noun

1. a woman employed in a factory, office, etc to make tea during a tea break

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Example Sentences

“I was earning less than the tea lady.”

From New York Times

TV personality Hayley Pearce, who was the tea lady in the BBC series, tweeted that he was "world's greatest boss".

From BBC

Furthermore, in a fantasy of national independence predicated on the Bush-Blair relationship, Britain stands up to America, though not, unfortunately, because of its slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis, but because Billy Bob Thornton got a bit too close to the tea lady the PM fancies, aka Natalie, a human woman, or, as he has it in his famous speech, a “thing”.

From The Guardian

“The mournful sound of the rubber wheels of the tea trolley squeaking on the lino floor was the right soundtrack for the end of the world. Sometimes the tea lady lost her grip and the trolley hit the corners of the walls and beds. It was the equivalent of waterfalls and parrots in my new terrible world.”

From New York Times

“It was raining. I asked the tea lady, Mavis, if I could borrow her umbrella.”

From The Guardian