"maid-of-all-work" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1770, Thomas Bridges, chapter 7, in The Adventures of a Bank-Note, volume 3, London: T. Davies, published 1771, page 54",
          "text": "Now this honest little fellow being a bachelor, keeps but one servant, which he calls a maid of all work. When he gets drunk, which doth not happen above seven times a week, he is never so happy as when he is expatiating on the virtues of this virgin of his, especially her sobriety.",
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          "ref": "1883, R. E. N. Twopeny, “Servants”, in Town Life in Australia, London: Elliot Stock",
          "text": "Directly you come to incomes below a thousand a year, the number of servants is often reduced to a maid-of-all-work, more or less competent according to her wages, which run from seven to fifteen shillings a week. At the former price she knows absolutely nothing; at the latter something of everything. She cooks, washes, sweeps, dusts, makes the beds, clears the baths, and answers the door.",
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          "ref": "1904, Christine Terhune Herrick, chapter 4, in The Expert Maid-Servant, Harper & Bros.",
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          "ref": "1916, Charles Zueblin, “Rejuvenating the Constitution”, in Yale Law Journal, volume 25, page 218",
          "text": "These colossal changes necessitate an attempt to adapt the constitution of 1789 to an entirely different kind of civilization from the one for which it was planned. The only significant change made to meet this new civilization is the great American maid-of-all-work, the Inter-State Commerce Commission.",
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          "ref": "1917 February 28, “Essence of Parliament”, in Punch, volume 152, page 143",
          "text": "Sir GEORGE CAVE is the Ministerial maid-of-all-work. Whenever there is a disagreeable or awkward measure to introduce it falls to the Quite-at-Home Secretary, if I may borrow an expression coined by my friend, TOBY, M.P., for one of Sir GEORGE’S predecessors.",
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          "ref": "1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, Chapter",
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          "ref": "1940 December, O. S. M. Raw, “The Rhodesia Railways—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 639",
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          "ref": "1945 November and December, H. C. Casserley, “Random Reflections on British Locomotive Types—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 319",
          "text": "At the other extreme, we have that true maid-of-all-work type, the 0-6-0, the mainstay of goods, shunting, and often of passenger work right from the earliest days to the present time.",
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