tea lady
Britishnoun
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TV personality Hayley Pearce, who was the tea lady in the BBC series, tweeted that he was "world's greatest boss".
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2021
After all, it’s only in a Richard Curtis movie that a posh British man ends up with an English tea lady.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2017
He is tea lady Long Joan Silver, the lynchpin in a plot involving Wendy's great-great-grandaughter, also called Wendy, Tinkerbell on a motorised scooter and the boy who still hasn't grown up, Peter.
From Reuters ● Dec. 22, 2016
She made brews for everyone from Alan Shearer to Sir Alex Ferguson, but after more than 50 years of service, Newcastle United's tea lady Kath Cassidy hung up her spoon in October.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2015
"Since you've had some of our tea," lady Feng laughed, "how is it that you have not yet become a wife in our household?"
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
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