Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—E

Emergency

A sudden emergency is something which starts suddenly into view, or which rises suddenly out of the current of events. (Latin, e-mergo, to rise out of “the water.”)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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