old hand

Definitions

A person who is experienced at a certain activity.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: insider, initiate; habitué”

“My tax advisor is an old hand at dealing with auditors.”

“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.”

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