au fait

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  1. Up to the mark; fully skilled or accomplished; expert; possessing or showing the readiness or skill of an adept: followed by at or in: as, he is quite au fait at the game. The natives [of Maitea] seemed quite au fait in the matter of monetary transactions and exchanges. Lady Brassey, Voyage of Sunbeam, I. xiii.

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  1. F.; literally, to the point or fact: au, to the (see au); fait, from Latin factum, fact: see feat and fact.
 

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