- girl Friday
- noun Etymology: girl + Friday (as in man Friday) Date: 1940 a female assistant (as in an office) entrusted with a wide variety of tasks
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
girl Friday
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Girl Friday — may refer to:* Girl Friday (idiom), a feminine variation of the phrase Man Friday * Girl Friday (TV series), a 1994 BBC television reality show * His Girl Friday , a 1940 motion picture * Girl Friday (Beat Crusaders single), single by Beat… … Wikipedia
girl Friday — UK US noun [C] INFORMAL WORKPLACE ► a female office worker who does different types of work: »I needed to employ a girl Friday to help me with all my paperwork … Financial and business terms
girl Friday — n BrE old fashioned [Date: 1900 2000; Origin: Based on Man Friday, a character in the book Robinson Crusoe (1719) who does jobs for the main character, Robinson Crusoe] a girl or woman worker who does several different jobs in an office … Dictionary of contemporary English
girl friday — A girl Friday is a female employee who assists someone without any specific duties … The small dictionary of idiomes
girl Friday — or ,gal Friday noun count INFORMAL OLD FASHIONED a female secretary … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
girl Friday — n. see FRIDAY (sense 2) … English World dictionary
girl Friday — girl employee who does a variety of office jobs Jan is our girl Friday. She does the important jobs in our office … English idioms
girl Friday — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms girl Friday : singular girl Friday plural girl Fridays informal old fashioned a female secretary … English dictionary
girl Friday — {n.} A very dependable and helpful female office worker; especially a secretary. * /Miss Johnson is the manager s girl Friday./ * /There was an advertisement in the newspaper for a girl Friday./ … Dictionary of American idioms
girl Friday — {n.} A very dependable and helpful female office worker; especially a secretary. * /Miss Johnson is the manager s girl Friday./ * /There was an advertisement in the newspaper for a girl Friday./ … Dictionary of American idioms
girl\ Friday — noun A very dependable and helpful female office worker; especially a secretary. Miss Johnson is the manager s girl Friday. There was an advertisement in the newspaper for a girl Friday … Словарь американских идиом
