Phrase info

at the elbow

Meaning

at the elbow

Very near; close at hand.

at the elbow

Very near; close at hand.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it. Roald Dahl

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. Harper Lee

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice. Martin Luther King Jr.

The devil is always at the elbow of an idle man. American Proverb

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