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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sheet anchor

▶noun

1 an additional anchor for use in emergencies.

2 a dependable person or thing relied upon in the last resort.

– origin C15: perh. rel. to obs. shot, denoting two cables spliced together, later influenced by sheet2.

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