Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—K

Kitchenmaid

(Mrs.). So Queen Elizabeth called Lord Mountjoy, her lord-deputy in Ireland. In one of her letters to Lord Mountjoy she writes:

“With your frying-pan and other kitchen-stuff you have brought to their last home more rebels than those that promised more and did less.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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