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

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

It’s a jolly lucky thing, I reckon, to find a man like Thornhill at one’s elbow in a place like this.

From The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising by Mitford, Bertram

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 Wingfield, Lewis

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