sheet anchor
Example Sentences
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Yet, Jane — Tomalin calls her “the true heroine of this story” — remained the sheet anchor of his life, as well as his typist.
From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2021
In summer he manages his two dairy farms, calls them "a sheet anchor against inflation."
From Time Magazine Archive
Let the Constitution remain; it has hitherto been, and will continue to be, the palladium of our rights, the sheet anchor of our safety.
From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)
His sheet anchor, in which he had trusted implicitly, had suddenly dragged—and he was drifting fast to destruction.
From The Brass Bottle by Anstey, F.
The sheet anchor was let go, and alone now kept the brig from destruction.
From The Three Midshipmen by Prout, Victor
