at one's fingertips

English

Alternative forms

• at one's finger tips

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

at one’s fingertips

1. (idiomatic) Readily available.

   Synonyms: at one's fingers' ends; for more, see at hand § Synonyms

   He seemed to have all sports knowledge at his fingertips: we could scarcely finish a question before he had answered it.

Translations

readily available

• Dutch: paraat (nl), binnen handbereik, voor het grijpen
• Finnish: hyppysissään (fi)
• French: à portée de main (fr), sous la main (fr)
• German: auf der Fingerspitze
• Polish: w małym palcu
• Russian: отскакивать от зубов (otskakivatʹ ot zubov) (bounce frome one's teeth), знать на ять (znatʹ na jatʹ) (know to yat'(old letter)), знать на зубок (znatʹ na zubok) (know on one's tooth)
• Serbo-Croatian: у малом прсту (u malom prstu)