any port in a storm

any port in a storm
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"в бурю любая гавань хороша", в беде любой выход хорош

He would soon be alone with no one to talk to perhaps, and if a sympathetic understanding could be reached with this man now, so much the better. Any port in a storm; any straw to a drowning man. (Th. Dreiser, ‘The Financier’, ch. LIII) — Скоро он останется один и ему не с кем будет даже перемолвиться словом; если можно установить с этим человеком более или менее дружеское общение, тем лучше. В бурю любая гавань хороша, а утопающий хватается и за соломинку.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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  • any port in a storm — This means that in an emergency any solution will do, even one that would normally be unacceptable …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • any port in a storm — 1749 J. CLELAND Memoirs of Woman of Pleasure II. 133 It was going by the right door, and knocking desperately at the wrong one... I told him of it: ‘Pooh,’ says he ‘my dear, any port in a storm.’ 1821 SCOTT Pirate I. iv. As the Scotsman’s howf… …   Proverbs new dictionary

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  • Any port in a storm. — something that you say which means you must accept any help you are offered when you are in a difficult situation, although you may not want to do this. I don t even like him very much, but I had to move out of my flat and he offered me a place… …   New idioms dictionary

  • any port in a storm —  Any refuge will suit in an emergency …   A concise dictionary of English slang


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