beck and call
Speech parts
1. beck and call - Noun
2. beck and call - Phrase
Meaning
beck and call (uncountable)
Summons and control, in a position of servitude or as an attendant.
At his beck and call, he had a small fleet of waiters and servants.
Synonyms
Examples
The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.
Sometimes I cry cause I'm confused, Is this a fact of being used? There is no life for me at all, 'Cause I give myself at beck and call.
At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
As it is, he's at the beck and call of those who hold the mortgage over him and, just now, they are not actually the voters.
My HMO is at my beck and call but at nosebleed costs.