Until the present, it has been rare for carers to be non-kin housemaids or paid nurses, although this may become more common among the better-off.
Two of these, a waitress and a housemaid, were possibly staff of the establishment.
These include an army for a soldier, a custom for a customs officer, a housegirl for a housemaid, and a houseboy for a man-servant.
He may say that this is a housemaid's baby, only a little one, and that there is nothing very much to worry about.
The defence for it is rather like the housemaid's baby; it is only a little one.
Like the housemaid's baby, he hopes to get away with the increase because it is only a little one.
It is like the housemaid's baby—just a little baby.
They not only cost the country a lot of money, but they give the housemaids a great deal of work in clearing the waste-paper baskets.
