at one's fingertips

English

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.

Translations

readily available

Finnish: sormenpäissään (fi)
French: sur le bout des doigts (fr)
Russian: отскакивать от зубов (ru) (otskakivatʹ ot zubov) (bounce frome one's teeth), знать на ять (ru) (znatʹ na jatʹ) (know to yat'(old letter)), знать на зубок (ru) (znatʹ na zubok) (know on one's tooth)

Serbo-Croatian: у малом прсту (sh) (u malom prstu)

See also

at hand

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Last modified on 16 October 2012, at 20:15