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bottle-washer

noun

  1. informal.
    a menial or factotum
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“She was from high-end Pasadena, and wasn’t really aware of that. And then when she took off, he was just right there for her. What I like about the show is its willingness to explore that, even though they were a mutually supportive couple, they were also two very strong personalities. And there’s no way there weren’t conflicts. For him to give her the limelight and be her bottle-washer, it had to hurt.”

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But if you look closely you can see that the bottle-washer's head really is inside the giant wine glass she is washing; that the woman who's doing the ironing is labouring away at the stretch of cloth that has been flattened against the substrate in true cubist style so that it doubles as the chore itself but also as her whole environment.

He is also, on this occasion, the director, online cook and offline bottle-washer.

Well, Ty's chief cook and bottle-washer to-night; and you know enough about him to understand what that means.

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