The original question was a looking for a way of describing a situation where one plus one equals more than two Would you prefer an alternate way of saying this, such as one person or more As for the suggested longer expression jack of all trades, master of none, but better than a master of one, the earliest matches i could find for it are two instances from 2007
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From drum magazine (2007) [combined snippets]
The full phrase is actually jack of all trades, master of none, though ofttimes better than master of one .
As we has only one class per year, a single number (no letter) sufficed As soon as i moved to secondary school, where we had more than one class in each year group, each class was known by a number (for the year) and a letter. One hundred and one 234,500 Two hundred and thirty four thousand five hundred based on my experience, britons, australians and new zealanders say the and, and north americans do not (ie one hundred one, etc)
I believe most other english speaking countries say the and Which version was used first? Here 'one hand' introduces hands into the conversation, so when you get to the other one, it's the other one because we're already talking about hands However, i then checked the numbers, and it appears 'on the one hand' is much more common than 'on one hand'.
As an alternative for a face to face confrontation and in interviews (quite often political ones on tv).
As paulq said one is a pronoun, so the following context came in my mind automatically Have a good one to you too (we don't repeat day here We use the pronoun one instead of day, as this is the real definition of a pronoun) it would be more natural to say you too!
Does but one mean only one or except one This phrase shows up in the song love is an open door from the movie frozen The relevant line is our mental synchronization can have but one When usage and logic clash (along the lines of more than one person has said)
We often hear this phrase, but how can people (meaning 'the plural of person') take a singular verb
