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at someone's beck and call
ready to obey someone. What makes you think I wait around here at your beck and call? I have to leave for work, you know! It was a fine hotel. There were dozens of maids and waiters at our beck and call.
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be at somebody's beck and call
to be always willing and able to do what someone asks you to do She had a dozen servants at her beck and call. TV companies should not be at the beck and call of government ministers.
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at somebody's beck and call
ready to do whatever someone asks Imagine what it's like to have a cook and a maid at your beck and call.
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