old hand
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Noun
old hand (plural old hands)
- (idiomatic) A person who is experienced at a certain activity.
- Synonyms: old salt, veteran, warhorse
- My tax advisor is an old hand at dealing with auditors.
- 2020 March 2, Taki Theodoracopulos, “What makes Bloomie run?”, in The Spectator (US edition):
- The media, needless to say, are very pro-Bloomberg. He’s an old hand at stroking reporters and television executives, and few of them have raised the fact that it was Rudy who inherited a lawless city with crime out of control and over eight years, via his ‘broken windows’ theory, turned Gotham into the safest big city on the planet.
Translations
experienced person at certain activity
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