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
Smiling grog is the sailor’s best hope, his sheet anchor, His compass, his cable, his log, That gives him a heart which life’s cares cannot canker.
From Jacob Faithful by Marryat, Frederick
He was not sure yet that she purposely avoided him, and he was sure that she had smiled when they met, and that one fact was his sheet anchor just now.
From The Squire's Daughter by Hocking, Silas K(itto)
"There's no way it can be done except by setting the sheet anchor thirty or forty fathoms toward the mouth of the harbor and working down to it by sheer expenditure of muscle."
From A Runaway Brig; or, An Accidental Cruise by Otis, James
