Ace of all trades →
The term “jack-of-all-trades” has gotten a bum rap in advertising. If you refer to someone as a jack-of-all-trades you mean they did an OK job at few tasks outside of their specialty.
An example of this would be: you’re strapped for time and you have a writer layout his own line.
One might say: “Boy, Andy is a jack-of-all-trades.”
On the surface not a bad thing, but most likely the headline is laid out so you get the jist of what’s going on but it isn’t really ready to be produced. So Andy…
