right-hand woman
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Felix Salmon sits down with Carrie Sun, whose book Private Equity: A Memoir recalls her life as the right-hand woman of a billionaire hedge fund manager.
From Slate • Feb. 20, 2024
Hussey was the queen’s longest-serving lady-in-waiting and quite possibly her favorite, given that she held the title of “Woman of the Bedchamber,” which effectively means she was the queen’s right-hand woman.
From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022
In the play, Ivanka is her father’s favored child, right-hand woman - and potential rival.
From Washington Times • Apr. 20, 2022
In the play, Ivanka is her father’s favored child, right-hand woman — and potential rival.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2022
For Polly had suddenly waked one morning, to find herself, not "famous," but alive with the sense of being—as her mother had so often expressed it—"Mamsie's little right-hand woman."
From Five Little Peppers Midway by Sidney, Margaret