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past master

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*past master (at something)
Fig. someone proven extremely good or skillful at an activity. (*Typically: be ~; become ~.) Mary is a past master at cooking omelets. Pam is a past master at the art of complaining.
See also: master, past


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When he left the stateroom Tarzan himself could not have told that an article in it had been touched since he left it--Paulvitch was a past master in his chosen field.
Morison was a past master in the art of insidious boasting.
He was overwhelmed, buried beneath avalanches of punches delivered from every angle and position by a past master in the art.
 
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