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jack-of-all-trades

[jak-uhv-awl-treydz, jak-] / ˌdʒæk əvˈɔlˈtreɪdz, ˈdʒæk- /
NOUN
handy person
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He could start by cutting the animated sequence in which Mary, her young charges and Bert, a local jack-of-all-trades, jump into one of Bert’s sidewalk chalk paintings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

To make matters even more difficult, Hulls, a painter, adventurer and itinerant jack-of-all-trades, was not really a writer.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2024

“I was actually calling myself a jack-of-all-trades for a long time,” he continues.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024

Rebecca Miller salvaged the modest furnishings from the studio, including a daybed, a pot-belly wood stove and an old metal office chair that her father, a jack-of-all-trades, insisted on fixing rather than replacing.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 2, 2023

Luke told me I might be a child of Hermes, a kind of jack-of-all-trades, master of none.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan




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