| 单词 | jack of all trades and master of none |
| 释义 | > as lemmasJack of all trades and master of none Proverbial phrase. Jack of all trades and master of none and variants. ΚΠ 1721 Boston News-let. 7 Aug. 8 Jack of all Trades; and it would seem, Good at none. c1768 Jovial Gamester's Garland (title page) The Jovial Gamester; or, Jack of all Trades, and Master of none. 1878 S. Walpole Hist. Eng. I. 311 It would be unfair to say of Lord Brougham that he was ‘Jack of all trades and master of none’. 1992 Independent 16 Jan. 23/4 Protean polymathy is the bane of the British: it goes with being too clever by half, a jack of all trades and master of none. < as lemmas |
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