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
- She is an adept rock-climber and a past master of the assault course.
- Peter Mandelson is a past master of the politics of xenophilia; his warning against 'the politics of xenophobia' taking hold in the spontaneous direct action now being taken by British workers is his bunker moment. UK Commentators
- Captain Bermudez, that past master of astrogational chicanery, gave a derisive chuckle. Perseus Spur
- She's a past master at exploiting other people.
- Breton, Surrealism's leader and a past master of character assassination, claimed in the final issue of Minotaure that Dali was a self-confessed racist, and Dali chose not to respond.
- What they will see is light in the form of an installation by that past master of lux deluxe, Dan Flavin.
- 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
- The archer is a past master, but also a masterpiece, of devastating stillness. Terracotta Army exhibition at the British Museum
- Trieste is a past master at avoiding history. Times, Sunday Times
