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Brewer's: 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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