Ingolby is a builder, perhaps a jerry-builder; but he builds.

I have not made speculative purchases of land, I am not booming a generous jerry-builder.

Hurry up the architect and the jerry-builder!'

He had begun life as a small jerry-builder at Golder's Green, and had ended it a millionaire and a knight.

Happy are they if they can find a piece of land marked for sale, where the jerry-builder has not yet commenced a suburban slum.

They are jerry-builders who can fashion a toy, but nothing that is durable.

They thought of the Town Council as a kind of Paradise reserved exclusively for jerry-builders and successful tradesmen.