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
He knew the ship had three masts and a sheet anchor.
From A Sailor of King George by Bevan, A. Beckford
We have trusted to it as to the sheet anchor of our safety in the stormy times of conflict with a foreign or domestic foe.
From The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One In The Government of The United States. Its Cause, and How it Should be Met by Steight, A. D.
I would first furl all and run under the storm forestay sail, unfid the topmasts going in, and have a long range of both bower cables on deck, and the sheet anchor ready.
From A Sailor of King George by Bevan, A. Beckford
