at someone's disposal
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[edit]- (idiomatic) Available to be used at any time and in any way the user sees fit.
- 1820, Fanny Burney, Cecilia; Or Memoirs of an Heiress, volume 3, page 185:
- Many might with joy have sought out her liberal dwelling, but no one had idly waited till the moment it was at her disposal.
- 2019 September 3, David Karpf, “Bret Stephens Compared Me to a Nazi Propagandist in the New York Times. It Proved My Point.”, in Esquire[1]:
- Stephens used the largest weapon at his disposal—his New York Times column—to imply that the Jewish professor who mildly teased him online was the equivalent of a Nazi propagandist.