Sentence examples for of handyman from inspiring English sources

"Next time, you can bring me a copy of Handyman magazine," she said.

A rouseabout was first an odd-job man on a sheep station and then any kind of handyman.

But if you do a lot of handyman (or handywoman) chores, perhaps one of these tools makes sense.

For a few hours, it's fun to engage in the charade -- however pitiful -- that I am some kind of handyman, but that's enough for me.

Modest, reliable and hard-working, Handy Manny is the kind of handyman you find only in dreams or in the doubly idealized world of animated children's television.

Mr. Paulson hired him as his special assistant, a kind of handyman position for which he took on a series of projects that caught the secretary's interest.

Trade associations that follow the home industry say they cannot keep track of handymen, who often work part time and are paid in cash.

If one-hour composers are like auto mechanics, then those who work on half-hour situation comedies are the equivalent of handymen.

Top people's pay has risen significantly, and the influx of workers from eastern Europe, as well as the increased numbers of the home-grown unemployed, has expanded the supply of handymen, lowering wages.

The end of the beginning Lords a-leaping Mr Fixit Choose your weapons Out with the old For whom the bell tolls No escape ReprintsMiss Perrons says that rich folk find the services of handymen more affordable than they were.

Rival Homejoy recently started encroaching on Handybook's turf by not just offering cleaning services, but also launching a series of handyman-type services.