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.