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an old hand

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an old hand
someone who has done a particular job or activity for a long time and who can do it very well (often + at ) She's an old hand at magazines, having trained on Cosmopolitan before editing Company.
See also: hand, old


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I took them off with all the coolness of an old hand, and then I placed him on my knee and removed his blouse.
Sarah, though checked by this flank attack, was herself an old hand in the art.
As for Good, he rose and wrung his hands over the brave man who had given his life to save him, and, though I am an old hand, I felt a lump grow in my throat.
 
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