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
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)
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
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.
But at one's elbow spreads Cavendish's melon farm.
From Stories of a Western Town by Thanet, Octave
