chief cook and bottle washer

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My mother did not, but she was, in her words, the "chief cook and bottle washer".

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2016

For close to 40 years Alice was companion, housekeeper and quite often chief cook and bottle washer for Fellow U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Well, if I did that," said Uncle Ike, "you wouldn't need Mandy, for I should be chief cook and bottle washer myself."

From Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life by Pidgin, Charles Felton

I was now chief cook and bottle washer, my partner, who was entirely unaccustomed to work of this kind, having the status of a boarder.

From The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse by Garland, Hamlin

Got my job as chief cook and bottle washer with the handsome Chester Hunt and will cook dinner for him tomorrow evening.

From Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman by Sampson, Emma Speed