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Past master   /pæst mˈæstər/   Listen
Past master

noun
1.
Someone who was formerly a master.
2.
Someone who has long and thorough experience in a given activity.





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"Past master" Quotes from Famous Books



... was executed with skill. But there was an eagle eye back of those hills of Fredericksburg. Lee was not only a great stark fighter, he was a past master in the arts of war. He had divined his opponent's plan from the ...
— The Southerner - A Romance of the Real Lincoln • Thomas Dixon
... host's elbow watching the game through a cloud of suffocating cigarette smoke. Even old Griggs, who detested cards, had sacrificed himself in order to make up the second table. As for Logotheti, he was too tactful to refuse a game in which every one knew him to be a past master, in order to sit out and talk to ...
— The Primadonna • F. Marion Crawford


Words linked to "Past master" :   master, expert, professional


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