chief cook and bottle washer


Individual who has most of the many and quite varied responsibilities in an enterprise. This slangy Americanism origi- nated  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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