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
The sheet anchor was let go, and alone now kept the brig from destruction.
From The Three Midshipmen by Victor Prout
This remembrance and impression is the sheet anchor of his steadfastness.
From The Portland Sketch Book by Various
He showed me that my drawings—the one sketch, at any rate, which I held sacred—would prove my sheet anchor when I was brought into the stormy waters of inquest and law courts.
From The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley by Louis Tracy
