"Jack at a pinch" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1839, The Cottager's Monthly Visitor, volume 19, page 270:",
          "text": "\"Nay, not I; it is a pretty thing to expect me to wash them; you may take them back again, and say, as Sally had them before, she may wash them now, for me; I am not going to be 'Jack at a pinch,' I can tell you.\"",
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        "A person whose assistance is sought only in an emergency."
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        "(informal, archaic) A person whose assistance is sought only in an emergency."
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