right-hand man

English

Noun

right-hand man (plural right-hand men)

A trusted assistant.
Synonyms: man Friday, right hand
- 2014, Christina Lauren, Dirty Rowdy Thing, pages 303–304:
  This guy is the real thing [...] and he's plucked my girl up to be his right-hand man because he knows she's the real deal, too.

Coordinate terms

right-hand woman

Translations

trusted assistant

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 左膀右臂 (zuǒbǎngyòubì)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: oikea käsi
French: bras droit (fr) m, factotum (fr) m or f, grouillot (fr) m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: rechte Hand f
Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
Italian: braccio destro m
Japanese: 右腕 (ja) (みぎうで, migiude)
Korean: 오른팔 (oreunpal)
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: де́сна ра́ка f (désna ráka)
Malay: orang kanan
Polish: prawa ręka (pl) f
Portuguese: braço direito (pt) m
Romanian: please add this translation if you can
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Serbo-Croatian: desna ruka (sh) f
Slovak: pravá ruka
Spanish: mano derecha (es) f
Swedish: högra hand c
Turkish: sağ kol
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

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