at one's fingertips

English

Alternative forms

at one's finger tips

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

at one’s fingertips

(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)

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