handyman

• n.手先の器用な人; [老外]便利屋; 水夫.

比喩的な使い方。

handyman (n.)

also handy-man, "man employed to do various types of work," by 1843, from handy + man (n.). Gradually developed from the sense of "man who is capable at all sorts of work."

A handy man is so practised in the regulation of the little utilities of the house he inhabits, that by a slight touch here and there--a screw turned here and a screw loosened there, and a nail driven in time--he keeps all working smoothly, and averts those domestic catastrophes and break-downs of which Punch makes so much capital in his pictures. [Harriet Beecher Stowe, in Arthur's Home Magazine, August 1869]

1. They started me off in the gardens as a handyman .Digging，forking manure，that kind of thing.

彼らは私に先に庭で雑用をさせて、土を掘ったり、糞をしたりします。

2.He is an invaluable handyman to have about the place.

彼はこの一帯の非常に貴重な巧者だ。

3.So you 're a handyman and a fugitive architect？

そう言えば、あなたは施錠師であり、逃亡建築家ですか？

4.Anyway,are you going to get a handyman to install this stuff？

誰かにインストールを手伝ってもらいますか。

5.Hugh was leading a catch-as-catch-can life，working as an itinerant handyman .

休息は、流動パート労働者として間に合わせに暮らしている。