Weirdly, before we started the divination we knew it would be Maid in Manhattan.
"It's the maid's day off," she'd say sourly.
She and Mr. Banks have a dinner party to attend, and it's the maid's day off.
It could have done with more of its author's engaging reminiscences, like his description of his lawyer, an impoverished duchess who would invariably greet him at the door of her house with the words, "It's the maid's day off".
It's the maid of honor and best man's job to rally their troops to look their best on the big day, so if you have any ideas, pass them along: "Matt, can you ask the guys to look their best for the wedding and the pictures — shave, beard trim, hair cut or tied back?
Again, it's a maid role: she is Annie, a single mother who gets a job as "help" to Lana Turner, a widow and would-be actress with a young child herself.
It's the maids and janitors and cooks and dishwashers who do hard, repetitive physical work -- maybe at two or three jobs, and still barely make ends meet -- that make the minimum wage.
We slept and studied in minuscule, antiqued dorm rooms (rumors had it that there'd once been maid service), explored the unstaffed library at whim, and played impromptu (possibly drunken) games of late-night squash in the courts in the college's basement.
Clare had to prepare dinner as it was the maid's weekend off.
One unit could only be bid on by other owners in the upscale condominium building; it was a maid's unit on the market for $179,000.
