jack-of-all-trades

In this way, apposition has become a conceptual jack–of–all–trades which can always be conveniently invoked in order to account for marginal constructions in grammar.

Firemen can become baggage unloaders, and the airport manager can become a jack–of–all–trades.

The explaining jack–of–all–trades has everything in readiness before the beginning of the performance, and now it begins.

It is a jack–of–all–trades holding remand inmates, medical transients (inmates undertaking medical treatment), inmates with short sentences and inmates undertaking programs.

He was also a pretentious and self-righteous scientific jack–of–all–trades.

However, the jack–of–all–trades quality of their profession makes them less powerful at each individual skill than the classes which specialize in them.

She swiftly became a jack–of–all–trades who could actually create new innovative products in the highly technical industry of scuba equipment.

He is a down-to-earth jack–of–all–trades handyman, who comes into his own in this new world through his innate ability to scavenge useful bits and pieces.

He became some kind of jack–of–all–trades within the team.

Their mimics are widespread and develop a kind of rough and ready jack–of–all–trades mimicry.

The system’s failure to achieve popularity came from its jack–of–all–trades, master-of-none position.

It’s unclear whether he is really a philosopher or more like a jack–of–all–trades who has made a secure home in philosophy departments a comfortable base for somewhat undisciplined adventurings.