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tower of strength
Idioms and Phrases
A dependable person on whom one can lean in time of trouble, as in After Dad died Grandma was a tower of strength for the whole family . This expression, first recorded in 1549, originally was used most often to refer to God and heaven, but Shakespeare had it differently in Richard III (5:3): “Besides, the King's name is a tower of strength.”Example Sentences
Daniel Christopher Birks, who trained Mr Henderson in 2010 and led the troop he was assigned to in Afghanistan, said: "He was such a tower of strength, kind of like the model recruit."
Stewart’s performance holds everything together; her Lou is a quiet tower of strength, unexpectedly finding both love and darkness.
“My mother has been a tower of strength for our family, leaving us a legacy that will influence our children and generations to come,” Mrs. Comes said via text message.
She is also 27 - petite and blonde and a tower of strength.
As a couple throughout their married life, Daphne gave exemplary support to David and in his declining health was a tower of strength to him.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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