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
Where is the heart of life, if not at one's elbow?
From The Gates of Chance by Van Tassel Sutphen
To have a woman always at one's elbow who sighs like the east wind, and weeps like a cataract, as Gabrielle had taken to do of late, was vastly irritating.
From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
"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 J. E. (James Edmund) Vincent
It seemed impossible that the earth could ever have been green and warm and sunny, and that Death was not always sitting at one's elbow.
From The Hosts of the Air by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
