jill of all trades
- noun
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mujer polifacética
- As a jill of all trades, Emily balanced roles in both marketing and technical support.
Examples
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The team relied on their jill of all trades to solve unexpected problems during the event.
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She's truly a jill of all trades, always ready to offer help with any task.
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She is a true jill of all trades!
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Many women today are jills of all trades.
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As a jill of all trades, Emily balanced roles in both marketing and technical support.
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The team relied on their jill of all trades to solve unexpected problems during the event.
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She's truly a jill of all trades, always ready to offer help with any task.
Synonyms
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A person who can do many different jobs fairly well but is not an expert
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A person who is good at many different things
A person who can do many different jobs well in a team or workplace
Antonyms
How Versatile
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'all' and 'trade(s)' directly signal involvement in many kinds of work, so a learner who knows those words could plausibly infer that this refers to a person doing many kinds of jobs. However, the expression uses a personal name as a conventional placeholder (variant of 'jack of all trades') and is a fixed idiomatic label, so its exact conventional sense and register are not fully predictable without exposure.
Etymology
Jill of all trades comes from the older saying jack of all trades and gives the image of a woman named Jill who can do many different jobs, like fixing things, running events, or helping at work. So, it means 'a woman who is skilled in many different kinds of work'.