Mr. THOMPSON: ...we're looking at that, but we're just going to have to be a little bit better at not letting the tractors sit around in idle while we're doing an odd job.

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He's a bit of an odd-job guy.

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He looks an odd choice for the job of restraining ministers who spend taxpayers' money.

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Mr Blass had a few lessons at an art school, and was taken on as an artist and odd-job man by a clothes manufacturer.

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Chelsea Clinton seems an especially odd candidate for this kind of job.

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It made her an odd fit in the Washington of 1981, when she took a job working for Bob Dole, of Kansas, on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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In an odd three-degrees-of-separation, White's old job as head of equity capital markets at Credit Suisse was reclaimed by Ernesto Cruz, who is married to Zoe Cruz , the former head of fixed income at Morgan Stanley whose promotion to co-president of the firm in March helped precipitate the management turmoil.

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