NOUN
- someone who has long and thorough experience in a given activity
- someone who was formerly a master
How To Use past master In A Sentence
- Trieste is a past master at avoiding history. Times, Sunday Times
- I know everything of them by rote and I am a past master in tota re scibili. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- He's a past master at getting free drinks out of people.
- She is an adept rock-climber and a past master of the assault course.
- All you can say is good luck to them, because as any data provider knows, banks are past masters when it comes to gaming the system. Times, Sunday Times
- He's a past master at delaying meetings.
- Joe is a past master at getting invitations to parties.
- Nigel is a past master at sending out novices to win big handicaps and I've been following the latter named six-year-old's progress since riding him in a couple of uphill canters on the trainer's Gloucestershire gallops in March last year.
- Cairo is a sharper and a past master in knavery, and he will certainly slay the Jew and bring hither the dress.’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- The collection has won plaudits from golfing past master and BBC sports commentator Peter Allis.