au fait
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However, Nelson is less au fait with Asian finance and politics than his predecessor, Mark Tucker, a veteran of Hong Kong’s insurance industry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
If you are not au fait, then pimple popping is the trend for filming, up close and personal, the act of popping, squeezing or otherwise removing blackheads, cysts and other dermatological dementors.
From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2019
You’ll Never Walk Alone rings around Celtic Park, an anthem that both Brendan Rodgers and Steven Gerrard are of course au fait with.
From The Guardian • Sep. 2, 2018
It points towards a far more visually literate consumer, who is au fait with the aesthetics of Instagram, selfies, and photography as an everyday language.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2017
There was the travelled Englishman, au fait to every thing beneath the moon and beyond.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret
