at one's fingertips

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

at one’s fingertips

(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

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

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