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
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
They join a lineup featuring jack-of-all-trades Dominic Fike, pop-punk darling WILLOW, alternative/indie rock artist Alex G., post-rock band Explosions in the Sky and Yaeji, who blends hip-hop, house and more in English and Korean lyrics.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 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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