master hand

American  

Or master-hand

noun

1. an expert.

   a master hand at diplomacy.

2. great expertness.

   to show a master hand.

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Etymology

Origin of master hand

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

Muriel, for all its flaws, is another absorbing exercise in style by Director Alain Resnais, master hand of the new French cinema.

From Time Magazine Archive

One glance and you know no master hand directs .

From Time Magazine Archive

Once, and once only, the master hand that carved her face had let the chisel slip.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

Myra, sitting brooding on her misery, became strangely roused, as she heard the weird instrument played upon by a master hand.

From The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales by Hatton, Bessie

She is a master hand at the like.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion