sheet anchor
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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
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Gwen's one sheet anchor of hope, to which she clung in a kind of desperation, was the thought of the postal orders that Grannie and Aunt Violet almost invariably sent at Christmas.
From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Davis, Stanley
Feeble as he had been, yet he had always earned something, and had indeed been their sheet anchor.
From Ditte: Girl Alive! by Nexø, Martin Andersen
Geoffrey Hamlyn was my sheet anchor, but did not seem to be supported by the scraps of prosaic history obtainable; we could not verify those charming homes and social customs.
From Thirty Years in Australia by Cambridge, Ada