Definition
A person who is experienced at a certain activity.
In Context
- "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."
Also Said As
- veteran
- warhorse
- insider
- initiate
- ;
- habitué
See Also
- ingroup
- old hat