| 词组 | a chief cook and bottle washer |
| 释义 | (redirected from a chief cook and bottle washer)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. chief cook and bottle washerFig. the person in charge of practically everything (such as in a very small business). I'm the chief cook and bottle washer around here. I do everything. chief 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] chief cook and bottle-washera person who performs a variety of important but routine tasks. informalchief cook and bottle washerverbSee head cook and bottle washer chief cook and bottle washerIndividual who has most of the many and quite varied responsibilities in an enterprise. This slangy Americanism originated in the first half of the 1800s. Alluding to kitchen duties, the term is used far more broadly, as in “Mr. Miller described himself as the ‘president, chief cook and bottle washer’ of his company” (New York Times, Nov. 7, 1992). |
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