at one's fingers' ends

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at one's fingers' ends

  1. Synonym of at one's fingertips
    • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
      The more business he got, the greater his power seemed to grow of getting at its pith and marrow; and however late at night he sat carousing with Sydney Carton, he always had his points at his fingers' ends in the morning.
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