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
"But Lewis can say, as he did before, that he won't help them if harm comes to us," I persisted, unwilling to abandon this sheet anchor of hope.
From Highway Pirates or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne by Avery, Harold
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
We then let go the sheet anchor and gave her two cables on that also, but she would not look at it.
From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II by Ross, John, Sir
