jack-of-all-trades

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

Stern described his longtime friend as tremendously talented, a MacGyver and a jack-of-all-trades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2023

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

Alf was a jack-of-all-trades, carpenter, tinsmith, blacksmith, electrician, plasterer, scissors grinder, and cobbler.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

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

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

And as the law, like any other profession requires jacks-of-all-trades, the firm acquired a certain peculiar professional standing of its own, and enjoyed the good will of the bar as a whole.

From Tutt and Mr. Tutt by Arthur Cheney Train