odd job
Example Sentences
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To pay the family’s bills, his wife took in odd-job sewing work.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
Panting heavily after digging the grave, shaking his head in dismay, local locksmith and odd-job man Urii Churachenko bent down and placed two cigarettes in the earth as a token for his friend.
From Reuters • Apr. 5, 2022
On Monday the odd-job street footballers of Panama will kick off their first ever World Cup, by the Black Sea.
From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2018
He was goaded into it by George Wigg, now an almost forgotten member of Harold Wilson's kitchen cabinet - his coterie of advisers, courtiers and odd-job men.
From BBC • Dec. 19, 2014
"Pretty complete smash, sir!"-122- said the odd-job man, and then perceiving heads over the hedge by the churchyard, turned back to his duty of sentinel.
From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
