jack-of-all-trades

Anunoby had never made an All-Star team, but he was basketball’s ultimate jack-of-all-trades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

With the co-production between Latvia, France and Belgium, Zilbalodis went from being a jack-of-all-trades to forming his own production company — thereby mirroring the loner cat’s sudden need to work in a team environment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024

Mann played his way into the rotation in his second season by being an indispensable, high-energy jack-of-all-trades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2023

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

He was a jack-of-all-trades, breaking the sturdy little cow ponies, treating their injuries and illnesses, trimming their hooves, and bending over an anvil to forge their shoes.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

In other words, some yeasts are jacks-of-all-trades and masters of each.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024

One suggests generalists are jacks-of-all-trades but masters of none, meaning they can tolerate a wider range of conditions or food sources but aren't as dominant as a specialist in any specific niche.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024

Before the professions of typesetters and pressmen split, most printers were jacks-of-all-trades, completing apprenticeships that required they learn every task in a printing office.

From Economist ● May 23, 2018

My real beef with the Mikes is not that they are “vanilla”, however, but that they are neither experts nor jacks-of-all-trades.

From Golf Digest ● May 17, 2017

These musical57 jacks-of-all-trades began as accompanists, singing the songs of their master at the castles he visited.

From Woman's Work in Music by Arthur Elson