[Sca-cooks] Any Port in a Storm

[Ian Kusz]

ah, but you both, in a way, answered the direct question, and I thank you.

Interesting about the pudding.  Thought it might be testing whether it was
gelled, but if it's just a taste thing, it could apply to any food....the
proof of the soup, etc.

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Daniel And elizabeth phelps <
dephelps at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> Having sailed upon a stormy sea or two in my checkered past and wished to
> be quit of it at those times I can assure any who question that "any port
> in the storm" means exactly, religious exhortations not withstanding, what
> it says. Thus in such circumstances the meaning of the phase is closer to
> the use by Cleland than in the 1657 passage cited.
>
> Daniel
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> OED also lists
>  [1657   S. Purchas Theatre Flying-Insects ii. 354   When weaker vessells
> beare saile only in a calme, a true vessell of Christ should saile best to
> his wished port in a storme.]
>
> 1714   R. Cocks Sermon  6   Charity..is a safe Port in a Storm, an Asylum
> to the Fugitive, [etc.].
>
> Johnnae
>
> On Aug 10, 2012, at 7:19 PM, Daniel And elizabeth phelps wrote:
>
> > The question was:
> >
> > anyone know how old the saying is, "any port in a storm?"
> >
> > Earliest written use of the phase of which I an aware is as follows:
> >
> > I feeling pretty sensibly that it was not 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."
> >
> > "Fanny Hill" John Cleland 1749
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