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
In some way one associates one's day dreams with the lake and falls into thinking that there is something unfinished, sterile about living with no lake at one's elbow.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben
One heard him as though he spoke at one's elbow.
From The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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 seemed impossible that the earth could ever have been green and warm and sunny, and that Death was not always sitting at one's elbow.
From The Hosts of the Air by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
