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
The eye, unpractised, sometimes lost the current, When some wild rapid of the tide did whirl, While yet a master hand beyond the torrent Freed my frail shallop from the perilous swirl.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
It grasps with a master hand those questions which involve true patriotism.
From Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by Charles A. (Charles Alexander) McMurry
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