They believe that when a partnership works as well as theirs has, you shouldn't analyze it too much. Success came in the midforties when Paramount hired them for the musical equivalent of odd jobs.2003, Sam Staggs, Close-up on Sunset Boulevard, →ISBN:
On the other hand, if the decedent wanted to be a veterinarian but had never worked full time, worked odd jobs, had an English degree, and had worked as a receptionist at the veterinarian's office, it might be different.2005, Frank J. Landy, Employment Discrimination Litigation, →ISBN:
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Most of the usual things that average people sought seem to come his way anyway, for example, money when he needed it, where he'd take an odd job until he earned enough to get by for a while and then he'd hit the road again.2010, S. D Murdoch, Into the Field, →ISBN:
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A task of an incidental, unspecialized nature.
I like doing odd jobs around the house.
He moved all over the States, without a cent, picking up any odd job he could get.1910, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 1, in The Intrusion of Jimmy:
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For the next two weeks I bided my time, sleeping at night on an army-issue metal cot in a small, bare room separate from the other men; working during the day at whatever odd job the duty officer saw fit to hand out.2009, Malcolm Stevens, Evan's War, →ISBN, page 205:
It was the day before they were due to arrive in Kansas City that Billy earned a hand-out from a restaurant keeper in a small town by doing some odd jobs for the man.1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:
Both boys and girls were expected to 'odd-job' to bring in extra funds.2002, Lionel Rose, The Erosion of Childhood: Childhood in Britain 1860-1918, →ISBN:
Some of the actors were locals, others outsiders who odd-jobbed it while they performed.2016, Harry Turtledove, Typecasting, →ISBN:
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We were inseparable. Came down to London together, lived in a squat together, odd-jobbed together to pay our way while I was at art college and she studied to be an actuary.2016, Sarah Lotz, Skin Deep, →ISBN:
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Rare To perform odd or temporary jobs for someone.
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Alternative Alternative form of odd job.
1902 – Left for Switzerland where he lived in poverty, doing only odd-jobs2006, Mark Robson, Access to History: Italy: The Rise of Fascism 1915-1945, →ISBN:
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.2011, Jenny Oldfield, Horses of Half Moon Ranch: Silver Spur, →ISBN:
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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.2013, Jack Goldstein, Jimmy Russell, 10 Amazing Slenderman Stories, →ISBN:
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Attributive form of odd job.
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.2012, Tom Quinn, They Also Serve: The real life story of my time in service as a butler, →ISBN:
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.2014, Javaid Syed, Those Houses on the Ridge: Lone Suicide, →ISBN:
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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.2016, Gregory Eliyu Guldin, Farewell to Peasant China, →ISBN: