odd-job

Example Sentences

• "1902 – Left for Switzerland where he lived in poverty, doing only odd-jobs"
• "After a couple of years he'd come back to Colorado and chilled out at the Scotts' place. He'd planned to stay a few weeks, maybe doing odd-jobs to earn his keep."
• "Rosenblatt had spent eighteen months infiltrating the gang's infrastructure; starting at the lowest level, working odd-jobs for the street pushers Sol had worked his way up the organisation and had now secured a job working in the main drug factory on the south end of Hester Street, a building known as The Ballroom."
• "We had the logs delivered and an odd-job man carted them upstairs, but in the absence of a footman I had to make sure all the fires were lit and kept going in winter."
• "On Jaffer's second day of joining this group of odd-job seekers, a man who came in his car and hired a fat man from the queue with a ladder and a bucket in his hand, to whitewash his house, also took Jaffer as an extra hand, at almost half the rate which the man was to be paid."
• "This makes it easier to understand why odd-job workers become the target every time the government “cleans up the city,” although they toil for the least pay and are subject to all kinds of injustices."