chief cook and bottlewasher



chief cook and bottlewasher

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]
See also: and, chief, cook

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
RainbowRAYN-boEnglish (Rare)
Delilahdi-LIE-lə (English)Biblical, Biblical Hebrew, English
JÓRunnr-Ancient Scandinavian
Zsuzsa-Hungarian
Kathie['kæθi]
Nellie['neli]