at (one's) elbow

Close by; readily available. Please stay at your mother's elbow, in case she needs your help. I'm not very creative in the kitchen, so I always have a cookbook at my elbow when I prepare a new dish.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Tadija	TAH-dee-yah	Croatian
Shyam	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, Nepali
NadĚŽDa	-	Czech
Midhat	-	Arabic
Chifundo	chee-FUWN-do	Southern African, Chewa
Christiaan	KRIS-tee-ah:n	Dutch