She paid this man a weekly wage to do
odd jobs. The capture of Eustace was essentially an
odd job.
I was amused at the idea of its being a 'little
odd job' to find the Royal Baby.
I sought
odd jobs. I worked days, and half-days, at anything I could get.
There were always
odd jobs to be done about the barn on holidays, and the men were busy until afternoon.
The landlord (bent, honest man, on trying to keep the peace between us) had given him some
odd jobs to do, in the way of small repairs, here and there about the house.
Nothing steady could Daughtry procure, while his occasional
odd jobs did not balance his various running expenses.
She was a free-lance typewriter and canvassed for
odd jobs of copying.
"A week's work or a month's work, now and again, ploughing in the winter, or picking grapes in the fall, and there's always
odd jobs with the farmers through the summer.
They let him stay on--he learned to do a few
odd jobs about the place--and there Captain Jim found him.
So many men in Oakland were out on strike, or were locked out, or were unable to work because of the dependence of their trades on the other tied-up trade's, that
odd jobs at common labor were hard to obtain.
He's been running
odd jobs, and that, for the last two months.
In the evenings they would sit around the cleared supper table, she doing
odd jobs of mending, Martin reading, checking up the interest dates on his mortgages or making entries in his account book, while Bill at his books, would study to the accompaniment of record after record, blissfully unconscious of what a thorn in the flesh he and his music were to both his parents.