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
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.
One does not spend months in calling a person who is at one's elbow.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard
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 Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
But the fact that the men were unable to speak any language we understood prevented it from becoming irksome, and one was soon able to become nearly oblivious of the clanking sword at one's elbow.
From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Jebb, Louisa
