 Re: Right Handman
The expression is actually "right hand man" - three words not two. Terms specifying gender are now usually avoided, so the expression that is used, whether to refer to a man or woman, is "right hand person".
Interestingly this expression seems to have a real psychological sense : the person who sits at the right hand side of a leader tends to co-operate with them. I always get problematic students to sit directly to my right to try and lower their tendency to be conflictual. |