Jill of all trades, mistress of none

English Alternative forms en Jill of all trades and mistress of none Jill-of-all-trades and mistress of none Jill of all trades but mistress of none Noun Jills of all trades, mistresses of none A woman who has a competent grasp of many skills but who is not outstanding in any one. en Jill of all trades, master of none en jack of all trades, master of none en Margaretta Byers To You Job Hunters, Good Hunting! Help Wanted—Female New York, N.Y. Julian Messner, Inc. 1941 part 4 (Parting Shots) 325 https://archive.org/details/helpwantedfemale0000marg/page/325/mode/1up If you tell him airily you can do a whole lot of things, he thinks immediately, “Jill of all trades, mistress of none.” en Positions Vacant: Women and Girls w:The Sydney Morning Herald 43,721 1 February 1978 33 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/122642289/ 5 JILLS of all trades, mistresses of none, to be fully trained to promote sales of Gay Charm Jewellery in all City, Suburban and Country Areas. en Patricia M[cGowan] Wald Judicial Review of Complex Administrative Agency Decisions The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science; The American Judiciary: Critical Issues 462 Beverly Hills, Calif.; London; New Delhi SAGE Publications July 1982 74 https://archive.org/details/americanjudiciar0000unse/page/74/mode/1up 2 0-8039-1853-4 We generalist judges touch down daily on every subject from criminal law, to contracts, to labor law, to antitrust, to securities. In a nutshell, we are perceived as Jacks and Jills of all trades, masters or mistresses of none. en Biographical Notes Different Drums: A Second Trade Union Annual Lancashire Association of Trades Councils August 1984 95 https://archive.org/details/differentdrumsse0000unse/page/95/mode/1up 0 9508791 1 8 WENDY WHITFIELD lives in Nottingham and is unemployed. “A mother at last, with sometimes fond memories of being an individual. Jill-of-all-trades, Mistress of None—but then, aren’t most women?” en Janis Flores 32 Siren Song New York, N.Y. Fawcett Gold Medal 1993 483 https://archive.org/details/sirensong00flor/page/483/mode/1up 0-449-14737-1 “All you have to do is make a cone that widens as it goes up Dom’s arm. It will look medieval enough, and we’ll just glue some hair on the backs of his hands until he turns into the prince. What do you think?” Angie gave her an admiring look. “I think it’ll work. Are you sure you’ve never been a costume designer?” “Jill of all trades, mistress of none.” en Ruth Ann Edwards Student Staff Training in the Smaller Library Paul M. Gherman; Frances O. Painter Training Issues and Strategies in Libraries New York, N.Y.; London The Haworth Press 1990 94 https://archive.org/details/trainingissuesst0000unse/page/94/mode/1up 0-86656-937-5 Students may of necessity be scheduled on their own before they have mastered the range of essential procedures. We risk the syndrome of a Jill of all trades, mistress of none. en L. Elisabeth Beattie Handbook Against Hedonism The Courier-Journal Louisville, Ky. 13 April 1991 A 13 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/110152182/ 4 And yes, three more self-absorbed offspring round out the family; there’s Fiona, the owner of a trendy restaurant; Jill, the compulsive-spending attorney; and Portia, who at 25 is still a jill-of-all-trades, a mistress of none (trades, that is). en w:Ruth Schwartz Cowan The Land, the Natives, and the Settlers A Social History of American Technology New York, N.Y.; Oxford w:Oxford University Press 1997 section I (In the Beginning), chapter section “The European Settlers” 16 https://archive.org/details/socialhistoryofa0000cowa/page/16/mode/1up 0-19-504606-4 They learned that survival in the New World required men and women to be adept at many skills: jacks-and-jills-of-all-trades, albeit masters and mistresses of none. en Roger Clough Direct Care: Task, Theory and Context The Practice of Residential Work Macmillan Press Ltd 2000 58 https://archive.org/details/practiceofreside0000clou/page/58/mode/1up 0-333-66894-4 Indeed, residential workers can be seen, whether by themselves or others, to be Jacks and Jills of all trades, masters and mistresses of none. en Andrea Bonior When Friendships Go South The Friendship Fix: The Complete Guide to Choosing, Losing, and Keeping Up with Your Friends New York, N.Y. w:Thomas Dunne Books 2011 189–190 https://archive.org/details/friendshipfixcom0000boni/page/189/mode/1up 978-0-312-60731-9 Having So Many Friendships That You Can’t Keep Up / This Jill-of-all-trades, mistress-of-none approach can sometimes make someone look like they have the best friendships in the world. They’re outgoing, they’re popular, and if they want to throw a barbecue, they can have a houseful of people within two hours clamoring to line up in front of the pickle relish. But if you look closer, a troubling pattern emerges—none of these friendships is particularly long lasting, and there lies a wake of people who have gradually gotten fed up with, or been forgotten by, the Star of the Show. en Sean O’Brien 16 Vale of Stars San Francisco, Calif. JournalStone 2012 197 https://archive.org/details/valeofstars0000obri_n8m2/page/197/mode/1up 978-1-936564-61-3 Kahlman was saying, “…and I would submit that any of the Originals would serve as on-the-spot authority, I do think you are strong in both the prerequisites.” “Jill of all trades, mistress of none, Franc?" Yallia said. Related terms en jill of all trades References A[nthony] P[aul] Cowie; R[onald] Mackin; I[sabel] R. McCaig a jack of all trades (and (a) master of none) Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English 2 (Phrase, Clause & Sentence Idioms) Oxford, Oxon Oxford University Press 1983 323 https://archive.org/details/oxforddictionary0000unse_y8f3/page/323/mode/1up 2 0 19 431150 3 1 occas a Jill of all trades (and (a) mistress of none) used to describe a woman and derived from the traditional pairing of Jack and Jill, as in the nursery rhyme of that name.