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• Any port in a storm
  Any port in a storm

  In an emergency, we will accept help from any source and in any place, even from an unpleasant person.
• any port in a storm
  any port in a storm

  Any 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

Cultural  

1. In 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 Idioms  

1. Any 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.

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Any port in a storm any port in a storm

"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

"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, Angel," remarked Captain Swarth, as he flashed his keen eyes over the rickety fabric aloft; "but we'll find a better one soon.

From "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea by Morgan Robertson

We hastily stopped at the auberge, already half-drenched, and H.C. crying out "Any port in a storm," we entered it.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 by Charles W. Wood

During the climax of her set, SZA climbed into a lifeboat that was airlifted above the crowd, as if looking for any port in a storm.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2023

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

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

The party of political evasion thus became the refuge of the old original Whigs who were forced to take advantage of any port in a storm.

From Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson