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

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

Maurice Sr. was both jack-of-all-trades and working-class Renaissance man, for a time alternating roles as nightclub bouncer and drum-playing orchestra leader, Nurse said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 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

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

Every one of my fellows does something or other so exquisitely, that it were sin to make him do anything else—it is your jacks-of-all-trades who are masters of none.—But hark to Chaubert's signal.

From Peveril of the Peak by Sir Walter Scott