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
Bertha	BER-tah (German), BUR-thə (English)	German, English, Ancient Germanic
Archimedes	[a:ki'mi:di:z]
Nea	-	Swedish
Nena	-	English
Nicola	['nikələ]
Bev	-	English