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
Llywellynli-WEL-inWelsh
Micha-Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Andromedaan-DRAW-mə-də (English)Greek Mythology
Alty['ɔ:lti]
Rae[rei]
Theophilos-Ancient Greek