Sentences with phrase «dab hand»

As dab hands at DIY, the owners painted and reupholstered this French bed to create exactly the look they wanted.

I'm sure that makes students dab hands with a key pad, but you can't look back fondly on a romantic text message you were sent in your 20s.

Villa guests also enjoy an exemplary level of service; among the 29 - strong staff that serves Dea Villas are butlers working in shifts 24/7, and three chefs who are dab hands at creating everything from poolside snacks to gourmet dinners from a reasonably priced menu.

Our study found that over a third of members (36.7 %) enjoy photography, while a quarter (25.7 %) are dab hands with a paintbrush.

yes I have also become a dab hand at egg / dairy / gluten / soya free pancakes.

Our lovely friend and builder Lewis is a dab hand in the garden and keeps me in delicious greenery.

Unless you're a dab hand this will be tricky, but try to get it as even as you can.

The onslaught of flavours used in this vegan meal is sure to have anyone with a fondness for Far East cuisine salivating and it can be prepared and cooked in less than 20 minutes if you are a dab hand at multi-tasking while in the kitchen.

«O Fenômeno» himself is widely considered to be one of the best footballers to ever grace the planet — but did you know that he's also a dab hand around the poker table?

Not only does he face the monumental task of bringing a demoralised and self - destructive Villa back to life after a humiliating final season in the Premier League, but he also needs to learn that English football fans are a dab hand at making people's lives difficult on Twitter.

If you know someone who is a dab hand at art, ask if they could paint your belly.

Mummy is quite the dab hand at castles and princesses now;)

Your baby should also be a dab hand at moving between sitting and lying down and some will be able to shuffle on their bottom to reach for things.

Balls has met his match in Osborne, who - although less obviously pugnacious - is a dab hand at the snide put - down.

She's usually a dab hand at this sort of thing but her comments on the Andrew Marr show over the weekend seemed to suggest her leadership aspirations were overshadowing her caution.

I'm a dab hand for ironing and love the clean, crisp look it gives to my clothes; as for wool, I like to use a lint brush to remove hairs.

Thankfully, our friend Kanye is a dab hand at transforming his suits into something a little more playful, dressing them down and transforming them from formal to effortlessly suave.

outgoing love dancing and socialising a good listener and a dab hand at baking amongst other things lol

David is also a dab hand in the kitchen!»

So, time should be taken to knock up an indulgent dessert like a rich chocolate torte or if you fancy yourself as a bit of a dab hand in the kitchen a chocolate fondant.»

While Vincent's mental fragility makes him a dab hand at his job, there are points where he takes things too seriously, and his irrational actions even place Jessie and Ali in additional peril.

King and his writing partner Simon Farnaby have proved themselves dab hands at wacky call - backs and long - lead punchlines, as off - the - cuff details from the beginning of the film all end up having deeper relevance later on.

Never Let Me Go is a film born of pedigree; director Mark Romanek is a much loved music video director, writer Alex Garland is a dab hand at adapting difficult material (The Beach) as well as intelligent sci - fi (Sunshine), and the source material is the critically acclaimed novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.

The cast give impressive weight to what are effectively stock characters, something that O'Connor is a dab hand at.

Buckley, interestingly, can adjust her face into the sort of purposeful lockdown that will surely serve her well if she wants to go the action heroine route, while Flynn long ago proved himself a dab hand at «sensitive souls» who may be hiding a less beneficent side.

Byrne, who showed in Get Him to the Greek and Bridesmaids that she can be a dab hand at comedy, suffers more when it comes to characterisation, though she does her level best to make it work, as does Baker, her fellow Aussie co-star.

Oh, and she's a dab hand with a Sten gun.

If it's initially distracting that these tweakers are played by slumming Ivy Leaguers (James Franco, Kate Bosworth), director Gary Fleder — a dab hand with knotty, workable pulp (Kiss the Girls, Runaway Jury)-- proves admirably patient in revealing character and place, and it helps that those laying siege to our hero's self - timbered abode never quite react in the way expected of goons in a Jason Statham movie.

Assayas echoes Stanley Kubrick (those hotels) and Michael Haneke (death's mesmeric pull) but the film - makers whose ghosts most haunt this film are Hitchcock, always a dab hand at torturing his heroines, and Nicholas Roeg at his finest — particularly Bad Timing and Don't Look Now.

Han Solo, we're told, is a rebellious pilot with an attitude, rejected by the Empire for having a mind of his own, and a dab hand behind the wheel of the spaceship.

Some of them had never recorded lines for a cartoon before Archer premiered, while others were dab hands at the job.

If you're a dab hand with a soldering iron, go to and re-solder the battery contacts.

Not only because the writing has a distinct Irish lilt but because each short chapter ends with a musical score for an Irish jig, so unless one happens to be a dab hand on the keyboard, or better still, the fiddle, there is an element of the book that one misses out on (in fact it's a little frustrating that this otherwise wonderful book, winner of the Guardian and Whitbread children's book awards, doesn't come with an attached CD for the musically - challenged amongst us).

Not only because the writing has a distinct Irish lilt but because each short chapter ends with a musical score for an Irish jig, so unless one happens to be a dab hand on the keyboard, or better still, the fiddle, there is an element of the book that one misses out on (in fact it's a little frustrating that this otherwise wonderful book, winner of the Guardian and Whitbread children's book awards, didn't come with an attached CD for the musically - challenged amongst us).

I don't know the first thing about any kind of Kindle but my wife is a dab hand at using (and buying!)

I was a dab hand at dissing which is what they call putting the type back in its right case.

The Captain is both a wonderful sailor and a dab hand at the grill.

Gill Haynes Partnerships & Promotions Director Gill has over 30 years experience in the cruise industry, resulting in her being a dab hand at Trivial Pursuit blue questions so long as they are about coastal geography.

June to November is hurricane season, so the Dominican Republic is often hit by tropical storms — but the hotels are dab hands at dealing with them.

You can perform this modification yourself, provided you're a bit of a dab hand with a soldering iron.

Playing as Arbaaz Mir, a delightful guy who just so happens to be a dab hand with a sword, you'll get to work your way through the platforming world of 19th Century India in order to try and secure the famous Koh - i - noor diamond for the Brotherhood, all whilst discovering the real reason behind why the Templars have turned up in India.

My mother is very good at the 2D Mario games and a dab hand at Mario Kart Double Dash!

Just because you've managed to sweep aside «Through the Fire and Flames» on Expert won't mean that you'll necessarily be a dab hand at this particular game, which is a good thing.

Together with allusions to John Coltrane and other jazz greats, Williams is a dab hand at literary references, the most suggestive being A Note to Marcel Proust, a densely packed and ambitious work in which raised hands seem to grow from the muddy soil of grays and maroons at the bottom.

It's also a dab hand at gaming and licensing law, scooping up Chambers USA rankings in this area in Nevada and nationwide.

James Mellor QC is an experienced engineer and is in his element working on technically complex patent cases; he is also a dab hand in soft IP disputes.

YouTube — 14 and Shakespeare the Numbers Man — Numberphile — Even older than the Beatles, Shakespeare, too, had a dab hand at lyrics.