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 Thomas Carlyle
It is at times like this that one wants a good man at one's elbow.
From Long Live the King by Guy Boothby
Where is the heart of life, if not at one's elbow?
From The Gates of Chance by Van Tassel Sutphen
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 Louisa Jebb
