lean on somebody informal * , auch: lean upon somebody

The fact is I did need to lean upon somebody.

He did not sit, but leaned an arm upon the wall.

He leaned forward upon his desk and began to talk.

For some minutes he leaned upon the rail, lost in thought.

She closed her eyes and leaned for a moment upon his shoulder.

Not by true day, I thought, leaning forward, low upon his neck.

But then the Chairman leaned back away from me again, with one of his hands upon my neck.

She leaned both arms upon the hood of the car and looked straight at me.

They turned away and began to walk through the trees, leaning, without fear of discovery, upon each other's arms.

The man who had brought the news leaned upon his hands and wept.