past mistress
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of past mistress
First recorded in 1865–70
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In recent years, she played Felicity Huffman's mother on "Desperate Housewives" and the past mistress of Tony Soprano's late father on "The Sopranos."
From US News ● Sep. 20, 2014
In recent years, she played Felicity Huffman’s mother on Desperate Housewives and the past mistress of Tony Soprano’s late father on The Sopranos.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2014
In recent years, she played Felicity Huffman's mother on “Desperate Housewives” and the past mistress of Tony Soprano's late father on “The Sopranos.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2014
Wasikowska — the pensive Alice in Tim Burton’s Wonderland, the troubled teen on In Therapy, Jane Eyre to Michael Fassbender’s Rochester — is a past mistress at playing odd girls.
From Time ● Mar. 1, 2013
She was past mistress in the art of parrying insults and banter, but she had no reply ready for Louie's boyish air of deference.
From Buttered Side Down: Stories by Edna Ferber
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