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old hand

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old hand (at doing something)
someone who is experienced at doing something. The maid was an old hand at polishing silver. Bob is an old hand at training dogs.
See also: hand, old


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The professor reached out a thin, trembling old hand through the darkness until it found his old friend's shoulder.
I took them off with all the coolness of an old hand, and then I placed him on my knee and removed his blouse.
I had put my candle, designedly, a short way off, and then, as he held out his friendly old hand to me, had sat down on the edge of his bed.
 
 
 
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