Examples of jack-of-all-trades
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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.
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It is a jack–of–all–trades holding remand inmates, medical transients (inmates undertaking medical treatment), inmates with short sentences and inmates undertaking programs.
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He was also a pretentious and self-righteous scientific jack–of–all–trades.
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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.
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She swiftly became a jack–of–all–trades who could actually create new innovative products in the highly technical industry of scuba equipment.
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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.
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He became some kind of jack–of–all–trades within the team.
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Their mimics are widespread and develop a kind of rough and ready jack–of–all–trades mimicry.
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The system’s failure to achieve popularity came from its jack–of–all–trades, master-of-none position.
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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.
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