AT ONE'S BECK AND CALL

  

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AT ONE'S BECK AND CALL

Synonyms within Context: AT ONE'S BECK AND CALL

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Aid

At one's beck, at one's beck and call; friendly, amicable, favorable, propitious, well-disposed; neighborly; obliging; (benevolent).

Obedience

Adjective: obedient; complying, compliant; loyal, faithful, devoted; at one's call, at one's command, at one's orders, at one's beck and call; under beck and call, under control.

Subjection

Adjective: subject, dependent, subordinate; feudal, feudatory; in subjection to, under control; in leading strings, in harness; subjected, enslaved; Verb: constrained; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; under the lash, on the hip, led by the nose, henpecked; the puppet of, the sport of, the plaything of; under one's orders, under one's command, under one's thumb; a slave to; at the mercy of; in the power of, in the hands of, in the clutches of; at the feet of; at one's beck and call; (obedient); liable; parasitical; stipendiary.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Expression: AT ONE'S BECK AND CALL

Expression using "AT ONE'S BECK AND CALL": have smb. at one's beck and call. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: AT ONE'S BECK AND CALL

Language Translations for "AT ONE'S BECK AND CALL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

faire marcher qn la baguette (have smb. at one's beck and call). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

自家薬 中の物 (complete mastery of or over), 薬 中の物 (complete mastery of or over). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

やくろうちゅうのもの (complete mastery of or over), じかやくろうちゅうのもの (complete mastery of or over). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atay one'say eckbay anday allcay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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