A woman employed to make and serve tea in a workplace.
〈英〉（办公室的）端茶小姐
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Any company that still employs a tea lady gets my vote of approval!
Mrs Tilling returned to work in the early 1970s, as a cleaner and then a tea lady at Ushers Brewery.
But you could see the panel wondering if she'd been the tea lady.
He reaches the counter and looks up at the tea lady with apprehension.
I didn't even recognise one person there, except the tea lady, who used to run one of the Brownie packs in the days when I was young enough to go to Brownies.
The Prime Minister has lost faith in him, the tea lady has lost faith in him, everyone has lost faith in him.
Clearly either nobody reads Xtra's news pages or their tea lady doesn't work weekends.
The question is whether the proverbial tea lady could do worse than the current incumbents, new boys perhaps excluded.
That Goddam reporter's maiden aunt's dyslexic care giver was the tea lady at the Trust twelve years ago.
Are we expected to go like America and put them in leg-irons and get the tea lady to drag them into the dock?
Kath Cassidy is 74 and has been a tea lady at Newcastle United since 1968.
Here, he meets and is charmed by his chirpy tea lady Natalie (McCutcheon).
I couldn't help but remember the secretary and the tea lady.
The tea lady looked lovely, but she is hardly a role model for girls like my daughter, who is considering sports physio as a career.
The tea ladies serving up fruitcake and Earl Grey to passengers lounging in the waiting area are not as innocent as they seem.
A number of stories also relate to newly elected British Prime Minister Hugh Grant and his powerful attraction to tea lady Natalie (Martine McCutcheon).
From Wallace as the owner down to Mary the tea lady, there was a lovely feeling about the club.
The film is a string of intertwining love stories, with Grant as Prime Minister at the centre, falling in love with his tea lady, played by Martine McCutcheon.
Everybody, from the tea lady to the chairman, felt increasingly pessimistic.
The tea ladies said we've run out of sugar and I've forgotten where it's kept.