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
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
Where is the heart of life, if not at one's elbow?
From The Gates of Chance by Sutphen, Van Tassel
It’s a jolly lucky thing, I reckon, to find a man like Thornhill at one’s elbow in a place like this.
From The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising by Mitford, Bertram
