triple threat

triple threat

A person who is very skilled or knowledgeable in three different but related skills, abilities, or fields. She has degrees in law, business, and socioeconomics, so she'll be a real triple threat for our company. He's a brilliant actor, singer, and dancer—the classic triple threat!
See also: threat, triple
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

triple threat

A person who is adept in three areas, as in She's a triple threat on the editorial staff-she can edit, write, and design pages. This term comes from football, where it signifies a player who is good at running, passing, and kicking. [c. 1920] Also see hat trick.
See also: threat, triple
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
See also:
  • tech-nerd
  • have a good command of
  • have a good command of (something)
  • know (one's) stuff
  • know your stuff
  • know one's stuff
  • know stuff
  • know your onions
  • know (one's) onions
  • know about
References in periodicals archive
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JC Triple Threat's goal is to use his musical platform to bring about awareness to the issues that affect our youth deeply like suicide and mental health.
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Aside from her stint in fashion design with Triple Threat, she also has experience in marketing, product development and trade show design and production.
A triple threat in baseball is a player who could run, hit and field.
According to CorMedix, Neutrolin is a novel formulation of taurolidine, citrate and heparin with 1000 u/ml that provides a combination preventative solution, decreases the triple threat of infection, thrombosis, and biofilm to keep catheter's operating safely and efficiently by optimising catheter blood flow while minimising infections and biofilm formation.
Walk On: The Triple Threat. Knopf/Random House, 2014.
Combined with drinks high in acidity, this creates a triple threat to young people's teeth which can cause long-term damage," he says.
Herein lies a new definition of the "triple threat": a good clinician, teacher, and EHR navigator.