maid of all work

The maid of all work also died at about this time and was not replaced.

In the background Marie, the maid of all work, stood agape like a frightened hen.

Of her own role, she said, "I'm the maid of all work, to put it mildly.

I was a kind of maid of all works: conducting, coaching, taking chorus rehearsals.

I know that Matey here wants a maid of all work, and that the last two were highly unsatisfactory.

Becky: the maid of all work in the Gann household and Caroline's only friend.

"I'm helpin' the maid of all work, please marm."

Cullwick saw him as an idealized gentlemen who celebrated the intense labor she did as a maid of all work.

The maid of all work--the one who cut up a poor old widow and boiled her in her own copper.

The Pepyses hired their first servant, Jane Birch, as maid of all work, in 1658.

Maid of All Work (1890; never produced)

Ruth, a Piratical Maid of all work (contralto)

'Well, that's certainly something,' said Miss Mates, overwhelmed by such artless eagerness, so foreign to any maid of all work she had encountered before.

1875 - Maid Of All Work

"It's partly the way we were brought up: we were taught to be maids of all work," he said, explaining how he likes to bounce around.

Half the village came to see her off at the station, including the little maid of all work, Alice, who brought a stiff wired nosegay and cried openly.

Charlotte also relies on her maid of all work, Gracie, to care for her two children, Jemima and Daniel, when she is investigating a mystery.

Take your afternoon out, Miss Clifford; every maid of all work is entitled to as much, and I am afraid that is your billet here.

Imperially, Hackett secures Annik, the lodging-house maid of all work: robust, red-haired, laconic.

The pirates' maid of all work, Ruth, appears and reveals that, as Frederic's nursemaid long ago, she had made a mistake "through being hard of hearing"

She is a maid of all work at the home of the Bilkes family, whose patriarch is against suffrage and mock Sally upon discovering her affiliation.

Ruby's new mistress, Mrs Gladys Waddilove is a bully, treating her as a maid of all work, and makes Ruby pay for breakages.

She said to Sally-Anne, 'Well, I do need a maid of all work, that's true, but I never thought of hiring a lady.'

Affectionately known as "The Maid of all Work" (Mädchen für Alles), the Ju 88 proved to be suited to almost any role.

The 4300 Moguls were the maids of all work on the GWR network and later the Western Region of British Railways.