jack-of-all-trades

[ jak-uhv-awl-treydz, jak- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural jacks-of-all-trades.

jack of all trades

First recorded in 1610–20

He was a sort of jack-of-all-trades, and a very useful man in a valley where mechanics were few and transportation difficult.

Judge Penniman was another who warned him heavily that it was time to quit being a Jack-of-all-trades.

The surest way of making a man incompetent is to make him Jack-of-all-trades, for then he will be master of none.

A vision of a happy-go-lucky Jack-of-all-trades arose before me.

His duties—specialized to one operation—we deemed unfairly light in comparison with our jack-of-all-trades routine.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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