at your fingertips
8
3.0
- idiom
- Informal
:
al alcance de la mano
- With all the resources of the library at your fingertips, studying for exams has never been easier.
- information at your fingertips
- world at your fingertips
- health information at your fingertips
So whatever is whatever you have at your fingertips, use that.
- So whatever is whatever you have at your fingertips, use that.
- You can Google anything, you all have stuff at your fingertips that can make you great.
- It's the most advanced AI at your fingertips.
- You can access information at your fingertips.
- Green Lantern's ring has the power of chemistry at your fingertips.
- But if you're just starting, do what you have with with what you have at your fingertips.
- I really love the direct engagement with an audience at your fingertips any time of night, you know, early, late, sober, very not sober.
Examples
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It's all waiting at your fingertips to give your work an exciting edge over your competition.
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Aqualantic is pleased to offer extensive in-flight entertainment with hundreds of video and music programming at your fingertips.
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You can Google anything, you all have stuff at your fingertips that can make you great.
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You would have the world at your fingertips.
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Instead, he can have the entire file at his fingertips.
Academic text (2003) -
All that he needed was right at his fingertips.
Fiction book (2000) -
What's it like to have such power at your fingertips?
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A digital, easily searchable library at your fingertips.
Academic text (2010) -
Here's a list of 74 sites that put a world of information at your fingertips.
Academic text (2010) -
The incredible music of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is now at your fingertips.
Blog text (30)
Synonyms
205
1.0
Useful and easy to use when you need it
81
2.1
Ready to use or help when needed
1
3.4
You can reach and use it right away
1
3.5
Available for someone to use when they need it
1
3.7
Available for someone to use when they need it
Antonyms
How Accessible
- Informal
8
3.0
106
1.0
280
3.9
∞
1.6
38
4.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'easily available' is motivated by the literal image of something being physically at the tip of your finger, so a learner who knows 'at', 'your' and 'fingertip' will get a strong cue of closeness and immediate access. However, the sense is a metaphorical extension from spatial proximity to availability, so the figurative mapping may not be fully predictable for an average B1 learner without prior exposure.
Etymology
At your fingertips may come from a simple image: something sitting on the tips of your fingers is very close and easy to touch. That's why when information or tools are at your fingertips, they are 'easily available' and ready to use quickly.