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chief cook and bottle washer

NOUN
jack-of-all-trades
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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

Anyhow, inside of three minutes we was all out in that kitchen and facin' as mad a chief cook and bottle washer as ever hailed from France or anywheres else.

From The Postmaster by Joseph C. Lincoln

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

"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


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