• The_Lurker@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    “Just one bad apple!” One bad apple spoils the entire barrel/bunch.

    “Jack of all trades, master of none.” Jack of all trades, master of none, oft times better than a master of one.

    “Great minds think alike.” Great minds think alike, but fools never differ.

    • misspelledusernme@piefed.social
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      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.

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      “Blood is thicker than water” is actually “the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb”