with numbers

idiom

—used with adjectives such as bad, good, etc., to indicate someone's ability at using numbers (such as for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing)

Ask her to do the books, since she's good with numbers.

I've always been lousy with numbers.

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Then again, games are still scored with numbers, so arithmetic does matter in these contests. —

Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2024 The night sky is packed with numbers, all being fed into a piece of furniture like a flickering cabinet holding the energy of a locust swarm, stripping Somalia bare in half an hour. —

Tomas Tranströmer, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024 My research on financial literacy and credit and mortgage decisions showed that there are substantial differences in how good people are with numbers—which affects the financial outcomes for those individuals. —

L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024 Players deal with floods of Tyranid, an alien enemy that overwhelms armies with numbers. —

Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for with numbers