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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

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  1. In an emergency, we will accept help from any source and in any place, even from an unpleasant person.


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, 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, 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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