| 释义 |
chief cook and bottlewasher chief cook and bottle washerOne who is involved in many aspects of a particular situation. Because so many people have left our department recently, I'm the chief cook and bottle washer, doing every little task that comes up.See also: and, bottle, chief, cook, washerchief 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] See also: and, bottlewasher, chief, cook |