Jump To:

• 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.

---

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.

---

Example Sentences

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

Our first impressions of the Yellowstone, as seen from the mouth of the Powder River, were dismal in the last degree; but it was an undoubted case of "any port in a storm."

From Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life by King, Charles