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
Etzel	-	Germanic Mythology
Ognyana	-	Bulgarian
Yeong-Hui	yung-hee	Korean
Tex	TEKS	English
Nadejda	nah-DYEZH-dah (Russian)	Russian, Bulgarian
Urban	UWR-bahn (Polish), UR-bən (English)	Danish, Swedish, German, Polish, Slovene, Biblical, History