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- DictionaryDab hand/ˈdab ˌhand/
noun
- 1. a person who is an expert at a particular activity: informal British "Tony is a dab hand at golf"
He's a dab hand at cooking. She's a dab hand in the kitchen. She's always been a dab hand with a paint brush. Recent Examples on the Web Van Norden, a dab hand with Shakespeare, is a natural for Shaw.
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someone who is very good at a particular activity: dab hand at She was a dab hand at tennis and played for her school. Carlo's a dab hand in the kitchen (= good at cooking), isn't he? SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Experts and specialists. a mine of information idiom. academician. artist. authority. boffin. child prodigy. doyenne.
a dab hand at something. British informal a person who is particularly skilled at something; expert.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
Dab hand definition: a person who is particularly skilled at something; expert. See examples of DAB HAND used in a sentence.
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an expert or skilled personadept atone skilful ata person who is an expert at a particular activitySophia is a dab handat cooking.Try one spoon of this pasta, and you’ll agree she is adab handat making great Italian foods.Max is a dab handin the kitchen and certainly knows his way around an oven and, as a chef.George is adab handat tennis. He always in this game.Great Britain, [1950-60s]. Dab handapparently originated as Yorkshire dialect pre-1800 but didn’t become widely used in Britain until the 1950s, according to the Google Ngram. Following a familiar pattern peaked in Britain in about 1990, while U.S. use continues to rapidly increase (though it’s still used less than half as often here as there). The...
DAB HAND AT SOMETHING definition: 1. If you are a dab hand at a particular activity, you are very good at it: 2. If you are a dab…. Learn more.
a dab hand. Someone who is skilled in a particular area. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. Amanda can fix that hole in your blouse—she's a dab hand at sewing. Joe's a dab hand with mechanical stuff, so he can probably figure out what's wrong with your car.
