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Any port in a storm
Any port in a stormIn an emergency, we will accept help from any source and in any place, even from an unpleasant person.
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any port in a storm
any port in a stormAny solution to a difficult situation (is better than none), as in John's plan isn't ideal, but any port in a storm. This metaphor was first recorded in 1749.
Any port in a storm
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"Any port in a storm, as it were."
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2013
“But I thank you. Any port in a storm, they say, but I take home port if I got a choice.”
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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"Any port in a storm," of course, as the saying is.'
From A Laodicean : a Story of To-day by Thomas Hardy
Any port in a storm, say I; and even if it happened to be Slaughter Creek, which I believe lies further on toward Lewes, I'd grab it in a hurry, if it came along.
From Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast or Through Storm and Stress to Florida by Louis Arundel
Any port in a storm, expressed her mood.
From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Bertrand W. Sinclair
Yes, but at this point, it’s any port in a storm or any sense of texture in one’s salty beef soup slop.
From The Verge ● Feb. 15, 2022
They’re three times the price of Richmond’s crumbs, and Martin doesn’t have strong feelings about gluten one way or the other, but any port in a storm.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2021
So Washington Football fans will hang their hopes on any division title — like any port in a storm that sometimes never seems to end.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 21, 2020
And if that something good is not, in addition, wise or profound—well, any port in a storm.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 11, 2019
However, any port in a storm, and we've got the storm, sartin.
From Thankful's Inheritance by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
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