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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One glance and you know no master hand directs .
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Once, and once only, the master hand that carved her face had let the chisel slip.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
The towering mountain peaks, the great boulders, the babbling brooks, the peaceful valleys, the green grass, the beautiful flowers, the shady dells, all speak of his master hand.
From Treading the Narrow Way by Barrett, R. E.
The master hand of our finest painters might attempt to depict it, but the affair would be a dead failure; and did it succeed, strangers to these climes would pronounce it an unnatural painting.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
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