Term Gallery logo

Meanings of jill of all trades in English

Figure of speech.

        Related terms
        Synonyms
        Examples for "jack of all trades"
        Examples for "jack of all trades"
        1
        DO ONE thing really well or be the jack of all trades?
        News.com.au
        2
        He was a jack of all trades, if you'll excuse the pun.
        Storm Front
        3
        He was a doorman and jack of all trades here, I'm told.'
        Voices
        4
        He hopes not to end up a jack of all trades.
        The new yorker
        5
        It was a kind of jack of all trades and master of none.
        A journey: my political life
        1
        Crispinus approaches Horace quite as a ' Johannes Factotum,' as Greene had designated Shakspere in 1592.
        Shakspere and Montaigne / An Endeavour to Explain the Tendency o...
        2
        Ere long he had been taken into the company as an actor, and was soon spoken of as a ' Johannes Factotum.'
        The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
        1
        His detractors, however, mocked Eratosthenes as a jack-of-all-trades and master of none.
        Wired
        2
        It was a kind of jack of all trades and master of none.
        A journey: my political life
        3
        Lastly, that jack-of-all trades and master of none, Private Dunshie.
        The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a ...
        4
        You'll be a jack of all trades, master of none.
        Feminist dot com
        5
        Jack of all trades and master of none, I reckon.
        Swan Song
        Usage of jill of all trades in English
        1
        Despite being "Miss Jill Of All Trades", gardening is not one of those trades.
        Jamaica Observer
        2
        From triple majoring to modeling to your philanthropy to Playboy, you are a Jill of all trades.
        Ebony