dab hand
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He was a dab hand at carpentering, doctoring, shipbuilding and grape growing.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2022
A French prime minister should be loyal, content at lingering in their boss’s shadow and a dab hand with the country’s mille-feuille bureaucracy.
From Reuters • Apr. 26, 2022
“He’s definitely a dab hand at the barbecue … I can safely say there’s never been a case of food poisoning in the family that’s attributed to the Duke of Edinburgh.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2021
Milne, who was a dab hand at the light essay and not merely the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh.
From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2020
But Everett was well qualified: universally revered, and a dab hand at battlefields, he’d already played Concord, Lexington, and Bunker Hill.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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