odd job
Example Sentences
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Being a diplomat for the world’s most undiplomatic regime must be an odd job.
From Washington Times • Apr. 4, 2019
Olympics host is an odd job, and it has only gotten odder as streaming, real-time coverage of the games has transformed the primetime show into an outdated, flag-waving clip job.
From Slate • Feb. 14, 2018
I’d ask him to “tell me something,” and he’d describe an odd job he did one time while pursuing acting, or an idea he had for a movie.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2017
His friend Bill comes in, tired from an odd job that barely paid him enough to cover his gas.
From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2015
Money would come in—and with it, food—on the rare occasion that Dad landed an odd job or Mom received a check from the oil company leasing the drilling rights on her land in Texas.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
