⛵ “weather the storm”

What it means: Get through a difficult period without lasting damage.

“The shop weathered the storm by cutting nothing but its own hours.”

Where it comes from

Nautical: to come through a storm under control rather than before it. Transferred to money and politics by the early 1800s.

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More phrases, including proverbs from dozens of languages, at Proverbs of the World.