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
That was going one further than Jones' imaginary desk with the telephone at one's elbow, but the imagination is fertile territory.
From A Canadian Bankclerk by Buschlen, J. P.
To have a woman always at one's elbow who sighs like the east wind, and weeps like a cataract, as Gabrielle had taken to do of late, was vastly irritating.
From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis
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)
True, we're told that we'll have to give account Some Day for every idle word, but recording angels seem more sympathetic than a sneering ghost at one's elbow.
From Humorous Ghost Stories by Scarborough, Dorothy
