Jill of all trades but mistress of none

English Noun ! en Jill of all trades, mistress of none. en W. H. Hurlbert Too Much Mother-in-law Grant County Advocate II 43 Lancaster 2 August 1876 front page https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/884013946/ 5 With an assorted lot of wives, including a seamstress, a housekeeper, a laundress, a female physician and a governess, he would be enabled to enter upon co-operative housekeeping with peculiar advantages denied to the miserable mongonist whose wife so frequently is not only Jill of all domestic trades but mistress of none. en The Lounger At the Street Corner The Daily Colonist sixty-second year 231 Victoria, B.C. 12 September 1920 28 https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist62y231uvic/page/n28/mode/1up 4 The consequence is that the children become Independent in their views and practices, wander from one job to another, according to the rate of pay, and grow up to be Jacks and Jills of all trades, but masters and mistresses of none. en Mary Hart Managing a class reunion: It’s a picnic, but it’s no picnic Minneapolis Tribune CXVII 21 Minneapolis, Minn. 28 August 1983 1K https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/188384182/ 3 [Barbara Skovran] Schaller describes herself as a “Jill of all trades, but a mistress of none.” As the unofficial food chairperson, she planned for weeks what she would take. en Ruth Deinzer I am voting for Marilyn Lichtenberg AIM West Milford 26 October 2007 W 4 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/495481443/ 3 She [Marilyn Lichtenberg] has said she is a Jill of all trades but mistress of none and “The woods would be very empty if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.” en Manon Tremblay Käthe Roth Conclusion Quebec Women and Legislative Representation Vancouver, B.C.; Toronto, Ont. UBC Press 2010 194 https://archive.org/details/quebecwomenlegis0000trem/page/194/mode/1up 978-0-7748-1768-4 A little like an all-season tire that performs disappointingly in snow but saves a few pennies and allows the driver to avoid waiting in line at the garage, the model contained in the bill, meant to be consensual, is a “Jill of all trades but mistress of none.” en w:Joyce Lishman; Chris Yuill; Jillian Brannan; Alastair Gibson Social Work: An Introduction SAGE Publications 2014 9781446208892 Along different lines, Brand et al. (2005: 57), citing Williams, point to some of the difficulties social work has faced due to being seen as ‘a Jill of all trades but mistress of none’. en Robert Laynton Males and females are different Staying on Top of Your Woman: A Man's Guide to Dealing With the Women in His Life 2nd 2016 36 978-1-291-32974-2 The more attention she pays to peripheral events in the immediate present, then the more mistakes she will start to make and the slower her rate of work will become. These errors are multi-tasking failures. In effect, she becomes a 'Jill of all trades but mistress of none' - which is what multi-tasking means.