bottle-washer

"And you let that confounded bottle-washer talk like this before you, Mr.

The place was a vineyard, but it overhung the sea, and I got taken on as tame sailorman and emergency bottle-washer. The wages were the noble figure of a lira and a half, which is just over a bob, a day, but there were lashings of sound wine for one and all, and better wine to bathe in.

He got a job as "a sort of bottle-washer at six dollars a week," he says, in a chemical shop in New York.

Therefore the statement made by the de facto chief bottle-washer at St Andrew's had better be one of provable fact.

VIRGIL VAN DIJK has gone from restaurant bottle-washer to world football's top table - stunning those who felt he would never make it.

You can call me head bottle-washer if you want - it makes no difference to me, as long as there are specific responsibilities which I am in charge of.

If you're fed up being chief cook and bottle-washer, then say so - loudly.

In a small company, the CEO often has to be a jack-of-all-trades, chief cook and bottle-washer, filling several operational functions at once.

When Sunday lunch service started at the hotel in March 2009, the kitchen was a one-man band with Pearn as head chef and chief bottle-washer. There wasn't even a restaurant as such, one of the manor's formal rooms doubling as a dining room.

Often she's the mother of the village idiot, the ship's chief cook and bottle-washer or the proprietor of a Chinese laundry.

Heathcote currently combines the roles of manager and secretary, having also served as player, coach and chief bottle-washer in the 36 years since he joined the youth ranks.

Not surprisingly he was judged a nice catch by Dame Queenie Strop, head cook and bottle-washer to the court, played with great verve by Paul Tate.