avere le mani d'oro

Italian

Etymology

Literally, to have golden hands.

Verb

avére le mani d'oro (first-person singular present (with syntactic gemination after the verb) le mani d'oro, first-person singular past historic èbbi le mani d'oro or ébbi le mani d'oro, past participle avùto le mani d'oro, first-person singular future avrò le mani d'oro, first-person singular subjunctive àbbia le mani d'oro, second-person singular imperative àbbi le mani d'oro, auxiliary avére)

  1. (idiomatic, figurative) to be gifted in doing things, especially manual precision work
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