亚洲网紅露点

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wood-and-water joey

noun

  1. informal.
    a person employed to carry out menial tasks
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of wood-and-water joey1

from the biblical phrase ``hewers of wood and drawers of water'' (Joshua 9:21) and joey
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If anyone was to blame for Biddy's adventure, it was your wood-and-water joey鈥攐r your Chinamen鈥攐r whoever's business it may have been to see that the goats were properly penned.

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I'm not going to be wood-and-water Joey, I can tell ye, not for you nor no other men.

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