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, I have a letter here from Miss Josie O'Gorman, who is chief cook and bottle washer 'round there and she will tell you that I am a winner.
From Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman by Emma Speed Sampson
"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 Charles Felton Pidgin
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 Hamlin Garland
