manager, supervisor Hal is the chief cook and bottle washer for our school supper.
Sophie's choice
choosing between the death of you or your child He was facing a Sophie's choice: Lose his son or lose his own life.
too many chiefs and not enough Indians
too many directors and not enough workers, too many cooks... Everybody tried to be the boss. We had too many chiefs and not enough Indians.
bolshie
angrily provocative; originating from the socialist revolutionaries the Bolsheviks
chief
someone who acts hard and reckons themselves and is someone you don't like. Someone who bigs themself up too much;"He thinks he's the chief but he's nobody"
chief out
to smoke marijuana
coochie
the vagina
culchie
a rural dweller, a bumpkin, a yokel. Mainly derog. [Irish use]
hoochie
a promiscuous girl or woman
shiesty
shadey; probably from the German "sheist" (shit)
skoochie
skank+hoochie
in chief
1.at the head;in or having the highest place or authority 居首;有 最高之权位 He was a commander in chief.他 过去是总司令。 2. most of all; especially主要;尤 其 He has many good points but in chief his modesty.他有很多优点, 其中最主要的是他很谦虚。 He did it for many reasons,and this one is in chief.他所以这样 做,原因很多,这个原因是最主要 的。
thick as thieves
Idiom(s): (as) thick as thieves
Theme: FRIENDS
very close-knit; friendly; allied. • Mary, Tom, and Sally are as thick as thieves. They go everywhere together. • Those two families are thick as thieves.
make mischief
Idiom(s): make mischief
Theme: TROUBLE
to cause trouble. • Bob loves to make mischief and get other people into trouble. • Don't believe what Mary says. She's just trying to make mischief.
Procrastination is the thief of time
Delaying an action for too long is a waste of time.
Honor among thieves
If someone says there is honor among thieves, this means that even corrupt or bad people sometimes have a sense of honor or integrity, or justice, even if it is skewed. ('Honour among thieves' is the British English version.)
Set a thief to catch a thief.
A person who knows the tricks of the trade is best equipped to do the job.
chief cook and bottlewasher
chief cook and bottlewasher A person in charge of numerous duties, both vital and trivial, as in We have no secretaries or clerks; the department head is chief cook and bottlewasher and does it all. [Slang; c. 1840]
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