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at someones beck and call

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beck

1  [bek]
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–noun
1. a gesture used to signal, summon, or direct someone.
2. Chiefly Scot. a bow or curtsy of greeting.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
3. Archaic. beckon.
—Idiom
4. at someone's beck and call, ready to do someone's bidding; subject to someone's slightest wish: He has three servants at his beck and call.
Origin:
1325–75; ME becken, short var. of becnen to beckon
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Word Origin & History

beck 
1382, "mute signal," from bekken (v.), var. of becnan "to beckon" (see beckon). Transferred sense of "slightest indication of will" is from 1470.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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