at one's elbow

Example Sentences

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He knows to a nicety how many millions or billions of dollars one needs at one's elbow to annihilate this or that bugaboo of deflation.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was another matter to be blind and to play at seeing, with a clever woman like the Princess at one's elbow, ready to detect the slightest hesitation.

From In the Palace of the King A Love Story of Old Madrid by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

Nor is it delightful to have Molly for ever at one’s elbow, calling one Mrs Baboon, and my Lady Venus, and such like; but I could have stood that, though I don’t like it.

From The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Petherick, Horace

It is at times like this that one wants a good man at one's elbow.

From Long Live the King by Boothby, Guy

"Yes," said I, shortly, and hoping to be rid of him, for to have a babbling guide at one's elbow on occasions of this kind is fatal to intelligent enjoyment.

From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by Vincent, J. E. (James Edmund)