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
"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)
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)
But the fact that the men were unable to speak any language we understood prevented it from becoming irksome, and one was soon able to become nearly oblivious of the clanking sword at one's elbow.
From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Jebb, Louisa
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
