left-hand man—one’s associate who is not really important or effective (a play on the expression “right-hand man”—a person’s chief assistant):
- When he attempted to characterize me as Gritz’s “right-hand man,” I hastened to point out that I barely qualified as his “left-hand man.”
left-handed man—a man who uses chiefly the left hand for ordinary tasks:
- College-educated left-handed men earn almost 15 percent more on average than right-handed men with similar educations.