past master

Being a female, she was a past master of the art.

Guy had proved himself a past master at the art.

Sara was a past master at getting her own way.

He is also a past master in the art of disguise.

Had he learned that sort of arrogance from the past master?

"If I did, it is because you are a past master in the art of deception."

It is not easy to make an interesting program out of one composer's works, especially a past master.

As a military wife, her mother was a past master at relocating.

After many years of teaching, some past masters added different forms and other weapons into the system.

Poets construct their skills through the study of works by past masters.

Yet the young singer was thrilled to pay tribute to a past master.

Well now, the Japanese are past masters at it.

Like any experienced and accomplished university don, he was a past master at the art of making conversation.

Excluding past masters does not necessarily make a program more challenging.

They are past masters at the hellish art of torture.

He was a past master at tricks like this.

She's a past master at pulling the wool over your eyes."

The enemy moreover was a past master at making the obvious seem like the reverse.

How do we induce the Japanese, past masters at lip service, to agree to that third way?

But when it comes to realism, I'm a past master."

Most musicians and critics agree that there is more to be discovered in the music of past masters.

It's a tall order, but the Aldrich is a past master of big themes.

Though he paid homage to past masters, his response could not be mistaken for that of anyone else.

But Galloway had passed this particular buck before: he was a past master at it.

Tipperary, the past masters of the competition, provided the opposition.