at the elbow
Meaning
at the elbow
Very near; close at hand.
at the elbow
Very near; close at hand.
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.
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
The devil is always at the elbow of an idle man.