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Old hand   /oʊld hænd/   Listen
Old hand

noun
1.
An experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service.  Synonyms: old-timer, old stager, oldtimer, stager, veteran, warhorse.






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"Old hand" Quotes from Famous Books



... exclaimed Mrs. Carter, warmly. "Indeed, we won't do anything of the sort. I should like to see him try to turn us out! Old Hand, whose father used to blacken your poor grandfather's boots, turn us out of our own house! You don't know what you ...
— The Raid From Beausejour; And How The Carter Boys Lifted The Mortgage • Charles G. D. Roberts

... Arden, my old friend, All the pleasures we have known Thrill me now as I extend This old hand and grasp your own— Feeling, in the rude caress, All affection's tenderness; Feeling, though the touch be rough, Our old souls are ...
— Songs of Friendship • James Whitcomb Riley

... at him, shaking the thin old hand away angrily. Rand was upon his feet, some of the stubbornness already fled from his eyes, the sound of Ernestine Dumont's taunting laugh lost to him in the harsh voice ...
— Wolf Breed • Jackson Gregory

... such poor advantage as on that day. The court was still breathing the atmosphere of Mrs. Fitzpatrick's rude and impassioned appeal. The lawyer was still feeling the sting of his humiliating failure with his star witness, and O'Hara's unexpected move surprised and flustered him, old hand as he was. With halting words and without his usual assurance, he reviewed the evidence and asked for ...
— The Foreigner • Ralph Connor

... his skill as a trailer, for he at once went to work in a way that revealed the fact that he was an old hand at the business. ...
— Buffalo Bill's Spy Trailer - The Stranger in Camp • Colonel Prentiss Ingraham


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