odd job
Example Sentences
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She also wrote, directed and starred in the defiantly weird comedy “Mandy,” which follows an unemployable woman as she skips from one odd job to the next.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2025
He flitted from one odd job to the next before reluctantly returning to acting in 1956, when he was 20.
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2021
Being a diplomat for the world’s most undiplomatic regime must be an odd job.
From Washington Times • Apr. 4, 2019
Olympics host is an odd job, and it has only gotten odder as streaming, real-time coverage of the games has transformed the primetime show into an outdated, flag-waving clip job.
From Slate • Feb. 14, 2018
Money would come in—and with it, food—on the rare occasion that Dad landed an odd job or Mom received a check from the oil company leasing the drilling rights on her land in Texas.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
