at one's beck and call

[at one's beck and call] or [at the beck and call of] {adj. phr.}

Ready and willing to do whatever someone asks; ready to serve at a moment's notice.

* /A good parent isn't necessarily always at the child's beck and call./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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