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"ref": "1618, G[effray] M[ynshul], “Of Entertainment in Prison”, in Essayes and Characters of a Prison and Prisoners, London: […] [George Eld] for Mathew Walbancke, […], →OCLC, pages 23–24:",
"text": "Novv for the moſt part your Porter is either ſome broken Cittizen, vvho hath plaid Iack of all trades, ſome Pander, Broker, or Hangman, that hath plaid the knaue vvith all men, and for the more certainty his Embleme is a red Beard, to vvhich Sacke hath made his Noſe couſin German.",
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"ref": "1854 July – 1855 March, Herman Melville, “Which has Something to Say about Dr. Franklin and the Latin Quarter”, in Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], published May 1855, →OCLC, page 81:",
"text": "Printer, postmaster, almanac maker, essayist, chemist, orator, tinker, statesman, humorist, philosopher, parlor man, political economist, professor of housewifery, ambassador, projector, maxim-monger, herb-doctor, wit:—Jack of all trades, master of each and mastered by none—the type and genius of his land.",
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"text": "\"I am my own engineer, and my own carpenter, and my own plumber, and my own gardener, and my own Jack of all Trades,\" said Wemmick, in acknowledging my compliments.",
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"ref": "1912, Mary Roberts Rinehart, “Wanted—an Owner”, in Where There’s a Will, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 52–53:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1929, Howard W[ilcox] Haggard, “‘In Sorrow Thou shalt Bring forth Children’”, in Devils, Drugs, and Doctors: The Story of the Science of Healing from Medicine-man to Doctor, New York, N.Y.; Evanston, Ill.: Harper & Row, →OCLC, part 2 (The Story of Anesthesia), image caption, page 100:",
"text": "In 1823, when this drawing was made, there was anesthesia for dentistry and in fact very little dentistry except the extraction of teeth. Much of this extraction was conducted by itinerant quacks or jacks-of-all-trades who did it as a side line to their business.",
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"text": "Novv for the moſt part your Porter is either ſome broken Cittizen, vvho hath plaid Iack of all trades, ſome Pander, Broker, or Hangman, that hath plaid the knaue vvith all men, and for the more certainty his Embleme is a red Beard, to vvhich Sacke hath made his Noſe couſin German.",
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"ref": "1854 July – 1855 March, Herman Melville, “Which has Something to Say about Dr. Franklin and the Latin Quarter”, in Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], published May 1855, →OCLC, page 81:",
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"text": "\"I am my own engineer, and my own carpenter, and my own plumber, and my own gardener, and my own Jack of all Trades,\" said Wemmick, in acknowledging my compliments.",
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"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1929, Howard W[ilcox] Haggard, “‘In Sorrow Thou shalt Bring forth Children’”, in Devils, Drugs, and Doctors: The Story of the Science of Healing from Medicine-man to Doctor, New York, N.Y.; Evanston, Ill.: Harper & Row, →OCLC, part 2 (The Story of Anesthesia), image caption, page 100:",
"text": "In 1823, when this drawing was made, there was anesthesia for dentistry and in fact very little dentistry except the extraction of teeth. Much of this extraction was conducted by itinerant quacks or jacks-of-all-trades who did it as a side line to their business.",
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"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"word": "萬事通 /万事通"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "všeuměl"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "duivel-doet-al"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
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"word": "duizendpoot"
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"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
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"word": "manusje-van-alles"
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"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"word": "ĉiofaranto"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"word": "jokapaikanhöylä"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"word": "tuhattaituri"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "homme à tout faire"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
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"word": "touche-à-tout"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Alleskönner"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"note": "with a tone of adventurousness",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Hans Dampf in allen Gassen"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "Mädchen für alles"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Tausendsassa"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"word": "ezermester"
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"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "þúsundþjalasmiður"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tuttofare"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"note": "器用貧乏 (kiyō binbō, literally “skill-poor”) (disparaging connotation)",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"note": "何でも屋 (nandemoya, literally “one who can do anything”) (positive connotation)",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"note": "万屋 (yorozuya, literally “one who can do everything”) (positive connotation)",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them"
},
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "manmulbaksa",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"word": "만물박사"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "palbangmiin",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"word": "팔방미인"
},
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "homo omnis Minervae"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"word": "meistars visās lietās"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"word": "jaguh serbawan"
},
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"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
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"word": "yl-cheirdagh"
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"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
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"word": "homme à tout faithe"
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{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "alt-mulig-mann"
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"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tusenkunstner"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"word": "همهکاره و هیچکاره"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"humorous",
"literary",
"masculine"
],
"word": "omnibus"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "faz-tudo"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "homem dos sete ofícios"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"Portugal",
"masculine"
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"word": "pau para toda a obra"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pau para toda obra"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"Brazil",
"masculine"
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"word": "pau pra toda obra"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "máster na vse rúki",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ма́стер на все ру́ки"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "avtofotovelomototeleradiomontjór",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"humorous",
"masculine"
],
"word": "автофотовеломототелерадиомонтёр"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "и швец, и жнец, и на дуде́ игре́ц (i švec, i žnec, i na dudé igréc, literally “a tailor, and a reaper, and a piper all at once”)",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "comodín"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "factótum"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "generalista"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hombre del renacimiento"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hombre orquesta"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hombre renacentista"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"Spain",
"informal",
"masculine"
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"word": "manitas"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "todólogo"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "todóloga"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"adjective"
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"word": "polifacético"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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"word": "mångsysslare"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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"word": "tusenkonstnär"
},
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "one competent in many endeavours, sometimes regarded as not excelling in any of them",
"word": "elinden her iş gelir"
}
],
"word": "jack of all trades"
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