chief cook and bottlewasher
chief cook and bottle washer
One 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, washer
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
chief cook and bottlewasher
A 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
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
- bottlewasher
- chief cook and bottle washer
- chief cook and bottle-washer
- head cook and bottle washer
- be the chief cook and bottle washer
- cook
- crack a bottle
- on the bottle
- stubbie
- stubby