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’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
Well, honest Tommaso, it is a happiness to have a mariner as skilful as yourself, in these troublesome times, at one's elbow!
From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by Cooper, James Fenimore
But at one's elbow spreads Cavendish's melon farm.
From Stories of a Western Town by Thanet, Octave
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
