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 Sutphen, Van Tassel
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
One can sit in one's library with a telephone at one's elbow, no one comes in without being first announced by the footman, the streets are full of cabs, and all—- DORN.
From The Sea-Gull by Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
True, we're told that we'll have to give account Some Day for every idle word, but recording angels seem more sympathetic than a sneering ghost at one's elbow.
From Humorous Ghost Stories by Scarborough, Dorothy
