master stroke
大手笔,大笔一挥,高手过招
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- : a masterly action or achievement; an extremely skillful or effective action: War was avoided by a masterstroke of diplomacy.
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And that gets to the heart of what makes the game so incredible: By staying silent, it turns the player into the game master.
Dickens was a master of heart-wrenching pathos because he felt every pain as he wrote.
With every stroke, her leather boot creaked under the weight of her leg.
Why was a master photographer recruited to work with one of the most successful liquor brands on the planet?
So the master artist traveled to Beijing and shot in a former palace not far from the Forbidden City.
And with some expressions of mutual good-will and interest, master and man separated.
The "bad form" of telling a lie to the head-master is a later illustration of the same thing.
Here and there exceptional industry or extraordinary capacity raised the artisan to wealth and turned the "man" into the "master."
I hope the French Government will recognize this dashing stroke of d'Amade's by something more solid than a thank you.
Why should not Aristide, past master in drumming, find an honourable position in the orchestra of the Tournée Gulland?