right-hand man
an indispensable or invaluable assistant; right hand.
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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 BeastReid 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 PostCordier 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 PostThe right-hand man of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed by an airstrike in Mosul.
Pentagon Denies It Killed ISIS Chief As Airstrikes Hit Top Extremists | Jacob Siegel | September 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs Schaeffer grew more strident and political, his son was his right-hand man.
Brian Lewis Lewis was the right-hand man of Fox News chief Roger Ailes before he was fired last month in spectacular fashion.
Harry's right-hand man Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton got him a glass of water.
Prince Harry's U.S. Tour: Rolling Updates and all the News and Pictures as It Happens | Tom Sykes | May 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTPaddy, a Towson junior from Baltimore, is his right-hand man.
Riding Along With a Towson University Student’s ‘White Patrol’ | Caitlin Dickson | April 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWhy not give up the sea, remain here, and be my trusted friend and right-hand man in the management of the estate?
A Middy of the King | Harry CollingwoodTwo of the warders were agents of Prendergast, and the second mate was his right-hand man.
She also makes the mayonnaise and helps me here in the kitchen when I need her, but Gwen is my right hand man.
The Carter Girls' Week-End Camp | Nell SpeedBut the captain liked me also very much, and I was entirely his right-hand man.
Why, my girl, that clock was my right hand man and my adviser.
The Cassowary | Stanley Waterloo
Other Idioms and Phrases with 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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