Quotations from his books slipped into our daily speech whenever we wanted to appear clever: "Those were days when men were men"; "When a handshake goes beyond the elbow, then it has become something else".
"Playstation thumb" – in which players' thumbs became blistered and flaking – was reported in the South African Medical Journal, while "Nintendinitis" was a RSI-type injury affecting the wrist and elbow.
She is wearing a shirt dress, the buttons neatly fastened but the sleeves pushed up to the elbow.
Sevilla's appearance in the Europa League final meant that the whole continent got to enjoy Unai Emery's blazer in all its red elbow-patched glory.
Each household inside the favela makes its own connection to the community's single, slim water pipe, drilling a hole, attaching an elbow joint and running another pipe or hose into their homes.
(That was too tough to be called fun, let alone leisure. One of the animals had to pull out with an offside-elbow strain, but that's another story).
Serena Williams is nursing a sore right elbow – and Maria Sharapova is trying hard, no doubt, not to smile too much.
Mertesacker sports a pale yellow bruise to his left temple, the legacy of a stray elbow from the goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny on the training ground and the buffeting, whether physical or mental, has come to feel relentless.
"Looking for something fishy, something nice and slippery, gringa?" A mountainous woman, her arms elbow-deep in a basket of prawns, sniffed her fingers ostentatiously as I made my way between the overflowing food stalls in the crowded market.
Monzon, who had only been on the field for 15 minutes, had to go, but Voller, who had already been cautioned for a foul on Maradona, was lucky to stay on the field after catching the same player in the face with a wayward elbow.
Instead, led in by the elbow, blindfold whipped away, the club's supporters have been presented with something that looks a bit more like a takeaway in front of the telly.
