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, 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 Pidgin, Charles Felton

"Carl can run the trailin' end of it an' Dunk can boss the first-aid work an' Windy'll be chief cook and bottle washer o' the whole bunch!"

From The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land by Stuart, Gordon

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 Garland, Hamlin