at one's fingertips



at one's fingertips

Ready at hand, immediately available. This idiom is used both literally, as in This new dashboard design keeps all the important controls at the driver's fingertips, and figuratively, as in Tom was so familiar with the proposal that he had all the details at his fingertips. [Second half of 1800s]
See also: fingertip

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
LiisaLEE:-sah (Finnish)Finnish, Estonian
AndrÉSahn-DRES (Spanish)Spanish, Icelandic
Hayley['heili]
Yishai-Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
SÉAfra-Irish
Joy[dʒɔi]