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
Dionysusdie-ə-NIE-səs (English)Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Takehikotah-ke-hee-koJapanese
Hefin-Welsh
Diodorus-Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Erle (1)-Norwegian
Bayani-Tagalog