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
Sylvia['silviə]
Alice['ælis]
Karolinakah-raw-LEE-nah (Polish), kah-ro-LEE-nah (Swedish, German)Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian, Macedonian, Lithuanian, German
Perİ-Turkish
EmİR-Turkish
Minakshi-Hinduism, Indian, Hindi