master hand
Americannoun
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an expert.
a master hand at diplomacy.
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great expertness.
to show a master hand.
Etymology
Origin of master hand
First recorded in 1700–10
Example Sentences
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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
Then from an upper floor came the sound for which Maxwell had been waiting—the first golden notes of a violin played by a master hand.
From On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents by William Nelson Taft
The world still lacks what it very much needs,—a book of brief biographies of the greatest and noblest men and women of every age and country, by a master hand.
From The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature by Frank Parsons
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