at one's fingertips

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

at one’s fingertips

1. (idiomatic) Readily available.

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

Synonyms

• at one's fingers' ends

Translations

readily available

• Finnish: sormenpäissään (fi)
• French: à portée de main (fr), sous la main (fr)
• German: auf der Fingerspitze
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• 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)

See also

• at hand