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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a tinker" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a person who repairs or makes small adjustments to metal objects, often in a somewhat informal or old-fashioned context.
Example: "In the village, there was always a tinker who could fix anything from pots to pans."
Alternatives: "a handyman" or "a repairman".
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Maybe a tinker for hire.
'Had a bit of a tinker since we last spoke.
A tweak here and a tinker there, and -- whoosh!
After the session, she informed the dog's owners that Tank was a Tinker (as in Tinkerbelle).
Are film scores untouchable pieces of art, or would you welcome a tinker?
He says he tries to think of himself as a kind of craftsman, a tinker.
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Just as a painter paints, a writer writes and a cook cooks, a tinkerer tinkers – compulsively.
Mark Ostwald Strategist at Monument Securities "It's a tinker-man Budget: it's what people were expecting.
It's really a tinkering art more than a predictable engineering system".
But it is a tinkering exercise, with public sector workers re-designated as private sector employees.
Energy regime change will be not a tinkering at the edges but will require a dismantling of this 'progressive' tendency with radical retrogressive economic and social consequences.
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