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chief cook and bottlewasher
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
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