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
RubeROOBEnglish
ShaeSHAYEnglish (Modern)
Jumana-Arabic
VsevolodFSYE-vah-laht (Russian)Russian, Ukrainian, Medieval Slavic
Alboin-Ancient Germanic
Diocletianus-Ancient Roman