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
Bruhl is not now in an unprepared state:—here are Uhlans at one's elbow looking on.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Carlyle, Thomas
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
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)
It is at times like this that one wants a good man at one's elbow.
From Long Live the King by Boothby, Guy
