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
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.
His sheet anchor, in which he had trusted implicitly, had suddenly dragged—and he was drifting fast to destruction.
From The Brass Bottle by Anstey, F.
She rode for about an hour, but then drove; the sheet anchor was now let go, and a whole cable wore away, and the ship rode for about two hours longer, when she drove again.
