jack-of-all-trades
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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
Stern described his longtime friend as tremendously talented, a MacGyver and a jack-of-all-trades.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2023
Daniels is generally considered more of a mid-round pick and could serve as a jack-of-all-trades depth piece in the immediate with room to grow.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2023
Like Rico said, one of the ways we think of the factotum is being a jack-of-all-trades.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2023
Alf was a jack-of-all-trades, carpenter, tinsmith, blacksmith, electrician, plasterer, scissors grinder, and cobbler.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
