单词 | chief cook and bottlewasher |
释义 | chief cook and bottlewasherA 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] Words nearby chief cook and bottlewasherchide, chief, chief agglutinin, chief cell, chief constable, chief cook and bottlewasher, chiefdom, Chief Education Officer, Chief Executive, Chief Joseph, chief justice The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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