jack-of-all-trades
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]jack-of-all-trades (plural jacks-of-all-trades)
- Alternative form of jack of all trades.
- 1912, Mary Roberts Rinehart, “Wanted—an Owner”, in Where There’s a Will, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 52–53:
- A fellow can always get some sort of a job—I was coming up here to see if they needed an extra clerk or a waiter, or chauffeur, or anything that meant a roof and something to eat—but I suppose they don't need a jack-of-all-trades.
- 1985 March 24, Moselle Schaffer, “Around Town: He Looks for Trouble […]”, in Star Magazine (The Indianapolis Star), Indianapolis, Ind., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16, column 2:
- After leaving the service, he [Jack Schweibold] flew for Chicago Helicopter Airways and Butler Aviation as a jack-of-all-trades. “I flew the first traffic patrol for the Chicago freeways, defrosted tomato crops by keeping the wind blowing on them so the frost couldn’t form, flew dignitaries such as Eleanor Roosevelt, [Dwight D.] Eisenhower, [Richard] Nixon, [Gerald] Ford. I even delivered Santa Claus. One hundred and eighty Messrs. Claus, to be exact,” he says.