odd job
Example Sentences
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The Corbett Hotel's odd-job boy Alan Finlay, then 13, greeted the superstars as they arrived.
From BBC • May 26, 2025
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
For some reason Midorikawa seemed to have taken a deep interest in this young odd-job worker.
From Slate • Jul. 27, 2014
Mr. Magnet and Toupee had gone to stare at the monoplane; they were presently joined by the odd-job man in an interrogative mood.
From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
