misspelledusernme

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've always said this⁩ ⁨⁨52⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact. The jack of all trades idiom has evolved and been added to over the centuries. Here the conclusion of an analysis from stack exchange

  Conclusions

  To sum up, I offer this timeline of the earliest occurrences I could find for the various forms of jack of all trades and the proverbial phrases built up around it:

  1618 Jack-of-all-trades
  
  1631 Tom of all Trades
  
  1639 John-of-all-trades
  
  1721 Jack of all trades, and it would seem, Good at none
  
  1732 Jack of all Trades is of no Trade
  
  1741 Jack of all trades, and in truth, master of none
  
  1785 a Jack of all trades, but master of none
  
  1930 a Jack of all trades and a master of one
  
  2007 Jack of all trades, master of none, though ofttimes better than master of one
  

  The extra-long version of the expression may be considerably older than the 2007 earliest established occurrence might suggest—perhaps even a decade or two older. But it isn’t the original form of the expression; and in comparison with the forms that arose during the 1700s, it is quite young.