| 单词 | man-of-all-work |
| 释义 | > as lemmasman-of-all-work man-of-all-work n. (also man of all jobs) [humorously after maid-of-all-work n. at maid n.1 3b] a servant or employee who does all kinds of work. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > factotum both-hands1631 man Fridaya1809 factotum1824 man-of-all-work1830 bottle washer1835 bumboy1907 1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 278 Mrs. Villars's man-of-all-work, Joseph. 1896 F. J. Furnivall Eng. Conquest Ireland p. vii But illness prevented him; and so I (as the Society's man-of-all-work) had to take the book up. 1938 S. Beckett Murphy iv. 54 Neary..boarded the first train for Dublin, accompanied by his âme damnée and man-of-all work, Cooper. 1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing xx. 22 Hermann, the man of all jobs, a former member of the Party's paramilitary organisation in Saxony. < as lemmas |
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