girl Friday

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. 2013.

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