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do-all|ˈduːɔːl|
[f. do v. + all.]
One who manages the whole business; a factotum. Also attrib.
1633D. Rogers Treat. Sacraments ii. 7 It is conscience which is the do-all in the soule. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. v. §20 Dunstan was the Doe-all at Court, being the Kings Treasurer, Chancellour, Counsellour, Confessour, all things. 1701J. Jackson Let. in Pepys' Diary (1879) VI. 233 The Cardinal is the do-all. 1816Jane Austen Emma I. i. 19 A something between the do-nothing and the do-all. 1964G. L. Cohen What's Wrong with Hospitals? i. 21 Medical advance soon prevented the do-all doctor from subsisting alone. He leaned increasingly on hospital resources. |