Jack-of-All-Trades, Master of None. We've all heard that expression, but what we rarely hear is the end of it. The original complete epithet reads: "Jack-of-all-trades, master of none, though oftentimes better than master of one." Interestingly enough, the world is changing to a more complicated, more integrated place.

2023年11月2日 · This has often been interpreted as referring to William Shakespeare. "Iohannes fac totum" is "Jack-of-all-trades". The "Tygers hart" line is from Henry VI, Part 3, in an early speech from York to Queen Margaret. It appears in the 1595 version, "The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke".

2023年11月2日 · The full OED says The earliest known use of the phrase Jack of all trades is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for Jack of all trades is from 1618, in the writing of G. Mynshul. But they don't have the master of none part, the nearest equivalent of which seems to be 1721 Jack of all Trades; and it would seem, Good at none.

2012年6月28日 · If the opposite is a "Jack of none, master of one (or a few)" then I think the opposite would be a Specialist. If the opposite is "Master of all trades, jack of none", you could use omnipotent, as Matt Эллен suggested. If the opposite in mind is "Jack of none, master of none", you could use unskilled or untrained.

A 'Jack of all trades' is "one who has a smattering of several branches of knowledge." and is not a term related to a polymath or "a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas; such a person is known to draw on complex …

2017年7月4日 · Jack of all trades means someone is is skilled in many things, as opposed to an expert, who is highly skilled at one thing. master of none is an incompetent person incapable of accomplishing anything. Thus, Jack of All, Master of None is a passive-aggressive insult. Clearly not what the OP had in mind. $0.02 –

2017年9月10日 · Above all it urged that they should not be "jack of all trades and master of none." [from The Federation of Master Printers: How it Began (1950) Because "master of none" is a familiar idiomatic or proverbial fragment, referring to someone as "master of none" rather than as "a master of none" immediately suggests the idiom to many listeners or ...

2018年12月2日 · A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one. Formerly intended as a compliment, the phrase means that a person is a generalist rather than a specialist, versatile and adept at many things. Which is commonly shorted (in the US anyway) to "A jack of all trades is a master of none".

2015年7月31日 · "Jack of all trades" is a possibility but is not a single word. I would consider this to be a positive description of a person but some may consider it a back-handed compliment due to the expression "Jack of all trades, master of none."

2016年10月8日 · There's a common idiom for this: "jack of all trades, master of none". However, that doesn't give you your two words, because if you said "Tom is a jack at martial arts" no one would have any idea what you meant. Thus, as @Catija suggested I would use "generalist" for the "master of none".