| 单词 | right-hand man |
| 释义 | right-hand manSEE SYNONYMS FOR right-hand man ON THESAURUS.COM nounan indispensable or invaluable assistant; right hand. Origin of right-hand manFirst recorded in 1655–65 Words nearby right-hand manright gastro-omental vein, right hand, right-hand buoy, right-handed, right-hander, right-hand man, right-hand rule, right heart, right hepatic duct, Right Honourable, right inferior pulmonary vein Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Idioms and Phrases with right-hand manright-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] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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