all power to your elbow

more power to your elbow

People say 'all power to your elbow' or 'more power to your elbow', to wish some­one luck and to encourage them to be successful. These expressions are used in spoken British English.

Bobby Gouid is a good man and he's now paving the way for a very good third division campaign. So all power to his elbow

It's nice talking to you, John. and more pow­er to your elbow with your programme. It's ab­solutely super.

the power behind the throne

If you refer to someone as the power be­hind the throne, you mean that although an other person appears to have all the power and control in an organization, it is in fact the first person who has all the power and control.

Will the armed forces, which have been the power behind the throne for nearly thirty years, he prepared to take a back seat to a new civilian regime?

She was the real power behind the throne, a strong and single-minded woman manipulating a weaker husband for her own ends.