When a person has excelled in many areas, one can safely say that he is a "jack of all trades." The meaning of phraseology will be analyzed today.
What is meant by “hands”?
The main difficulty in understanding is the imagery of phraseological units. Because an inexperienced person in folk idioms will think that it is about hands. But no, it says in this case that a person can do a lot. If you use a modern language, then the master is a multispecialist.
Of course, initially the expression meant that a man is terribly independent and can do a lot in the household: to build a house, plant a tree, raise a son, and everywhere his result is not only wonderful, but excellent. Nowhere is there a slip, everything is arguing with him.
When the world began to change and the division of labor gained momentum, expression took on a broad meaning. So they began to talk about a worker who could combine the talents of a builder and an electrician, and a football player who could give, and circle, and score. Of course, as an example of the latter, Lionel Messi asks for the language, but we will diversify the repertoire and recall the Liverpool midfielder Filippe Coutinho.
Synonyms
Without synonyms, it is rarely possible to analyze one or another phraseological unit. Moreover, you can offer the reader both substitutions in one word, and similar phraseological phrases. Let's start with the first:
- ace;
- dock;
- craftsman;
- craftsman.
And there are very few phraseological substitutions:
- skillful fingers;
- master of his craft;
- work burns in the hands.
It can be seen that in all stable phrases, substitutions of the phrase “master of all trades” phraseology, hands are the main element of the construction. True, in two of the three positions the “pragmatic”, “applied” aspect of expression is pronounced. “Master of his craft” is an abstract and universal praise, and the rest are rigidly “sewn” to thrift.
