clutch artist

Definitions

1. A person who drives a motor vehicle, especially one equipped with a manual transmission, in a particularly skillful manner.
   idiomatic
2. A player who performs especially well in crucial situations.
   idiomatic

Examples

“[O]n the highway or merely playing around a good dirt track, the engine exhibits loads of good low rmp torque and flexibility from scratch⟳, but sink⟳ those tires in sand and you've got to be a real clutch artist.”

“If you can drive⟳ a manual transmission, you have⟳ to be a clutch artist to handle⟳ brake, accelerator and clutch on an uphill start⟳.”

“Donnie’s used to finessing race⟳ cars, he was the clutch artist on Larry Miersch’s Huntington Beach, California-based A/Fuel dragster for five years.”

“Roddy Osborne had set⟳ up the score⟳ with a 32-yard pass⟳ to "clutch artist" Don Watson.”

“Shaq has perhaps the next great point⟳ guard in the NBA in Cleveland Cavaliers clutch artist Kyrie Irving.”

“The Chicago Blackhawks . . . will have⟳ a slew of decisions to make⟳ and contracts to sign⟳. . . . [T]eam captain Jonathan Toews and designated clutch artist Patrick Kane need⟳ extensions.”

“Joe Johnson is still a fourth-quarter clutch artist.”

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