What is a right hand man

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishright-hand manˌright-hand ˈman noun [singular] HELPthe person who supports and helps you the most, especially in your job John is Bill’s right-hand man and has put a lot of time into the team.Examples from the Corpusright-hand man• His former Sunderland boss has yet to appoint a right-hand man at Bristol City.• Flynn was the nearest John had to a right-hand man.• Lord Tebbit, former Tory party chairman and right-hand man to Baroness Thatcher, is backing the plan.• Pallid and balding, Vladimiro Montesinos, 56, was Fujimori's intelligence chief and right-hand man.• Sammy Williams was my trusted lieutenant, my right-hand man.• Though himself the king's cousin, Nithard had another patron too, the king's right-hand man, the seneschal Adalard.• Next door to us lived Geoffrey Hamm, Mosley's right-hand man in the area.From Longman Business Dictionaryright-hand manˌright-hand ˈman noun [singular] the person who supports and helps you most in your jobHe was my right-hand man for 10 years.

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: a very important assistant who helps someone do a job

He/She is the CEO's right-hand man.

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First recorded in 1655–65

right 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

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alter ego, right hand, second self

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

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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The best character in The Henry Stickmin Collection, He is Reginald Copperbottoms right hand. Nobody knows his true name. He is a very loyal and strict person, who can think quickly and really put up a fight. He is the strongest, bravest and 2nd most important character in the Toppat Clan. In most Completing the Mission routes, he is reborn with a cybernetic eye with a laser that melts anything it touches, 2 metal legs that can turn into a thruster, and a strong, metal arm that can turn into a giant blade. Right hand man, also known as simply RHM, is simply awesome.

Guy: Whats your favorite THSC character?
Guy 2: Right hand man.

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