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
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
