right-hand man

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noun

an indispensable or invaluable assistant; right hand.

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Origin of right-hand man

First recorded in 1655–65

Words nearby right-hand man

rightful, right hand, right-hand buoy, right-handed, right-hander, right-hand man, right-hand rule, Right Honourable, right in the head, rightish, rightism

How to use right-hand man in a sentence

The year Greenberg took office, Ellicott became his right-hand man as the “assistant deputy tax collector” for Seminole County.
The Shock Jock Texts That Could Be Critical in the Matt Gaetz Probe|Jose Pagliery, Roger Sollenberger|May 21, 2021|The Daily Beast
Reid Cashman left the organization to coach at Dartmouth, so Laviolette was able to add his right-hand man in assistant coach Kevin McCarthy with little disruption.
Capitals mailbag: Will the Caps turn to Henrik Lundqvist or Ilya Samsonov?|Samantha Pell|December 17, 2020|Washington Post
Cordier was best-known as the personal secretary and right-hand man of legendary resistance leader Jean Moulin, who had served as first president of the National Council of the Resistance.
Daniel Cordier, French Resistance hero, dies at 100|Phil Davison|November 23, 2020|Washington Post
In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.
'Babylon' Review: The Dumb Lives of Trigger-Happy Cops|Melissa Leon|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
The Muslim Cop Killed by Terrorists|Michael Daly|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.
Jeb Bush’s Unseen Anti-Gay Marriage Emails|Jackie Kucinich|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Everywhere I go, ‘Hey Cartman, you must like Family Guy, right?’
Trolls and Martyrdom: Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie|Arthur Chu|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President|Pierre Assouline|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
Mrs. Wurzel was quite right; they had been supplied, regardless of cost, from Messrs. Rochet and Stole's well-known establishment.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
The supernaturalist alleges that religion was revealed to man by God, and that the form of this revelation is a sacred book.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various

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right-hand man

Also, right-hand woman. A trusted helper, as in Give it to Jill, she's my right-hand man. Based on the idea that in most people the right hand is the stronger of the two, this idiom today usually disregards gender, as in the example. However, in the the 17th and 18th centuries it also meant a soldier in a post of command on the right side of a cavalry unit, and then always denoted a man. [c. 1800]

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