at one's fingers' ends

prepositional phrase

Synonym of at one's fingertips.

Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. Synonym of at one's fingertips.

    The more business he got, the greater his power seemed to grow of getting at its pith and marrow; and however late at night he sat carousing with Sydney Carton, he always had his points at his fingers' ends in the morning.

    1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC

    Synonyms: at one's fingertips

Synonyms & antonyms

prepositional phraseSynonym of at one's fingertips.

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Chicago

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